Eyewitness Djelfa: daily life in a Saharan Vichy labor camp
TitleEyewitness Djelfa: daily life in a Saharan Vichy labor camp
Author
Call number940.53180961/0002
Object number07852g
Place of publicationStanford, California, United States
PublisherStanford University Press
Year of publication
2018
Physical descriptionpp149-167
MaterialArticle
ISBN9781503607057
NotesArticle from the book 'The Holocaust and North Africa' pp149-167
Description
Uses the memoir and literary works of Max Aub, a Mexican-Spanish Jew and a survivor of the camp at Djelfa, who sheds light on Vichy camps in North Africa. His literary description of Djelfa is one of the most important historical accounts about the lives of refugees and internees of the war on the southern margins of the Mediterranean, and describes life inside the camps of Spain, France, and Vichy North Africa.