Jews of the Middle East and North Africa: the impact of World War II

Describes how the war affected Jews living along the southern rim of the Mediterranean and the Levant, from Morocco to Iran. Surviving the Nazi slaughter did not mean that Jews living in the Middle East and North Africa were unaffected by the war: there was constant antisemitic propaganda and general economic deprivation; communities were bombed; and, Jews suffered because of the Vichy antisemitic regulations that left them unemployed, homeless and subject to forced labor and deportation to labor camps. They were community leaders and average people who, despite their dire economic circumstances, worked with the refugees attempting to escape the Nazis via North Africa, Turkey, or Iran and connected with international aid agencies during and after the war.