For several years now, Yoram Haimi of the Israel Antiquities Authority has been excavating at the Sobibor site with Polish colleague Wojtek Mazurek. Open gallery view A dog tag for a Jewish prisoner found at the site of the Nazi German invaders' Sobibor death camp in Poland. The names included Aferiat, Acoca, Albo, Amar, Amouyal, Amsalem, Arditi, Azoulay, Attias, Ben Kimon, Ben Dahan, Ben Hamou, Ben Lou Lou, Ben Zaken, Ben Touito, Lugassi, Moatti, Dahan, Hajaj, Mimram, Smadja, Tayeb, Teboul and Touito. Open gallery view A list of Jews, including North African Jewish names, sent to the Drancy internment camp in France during the Holocaust. Credit: Sobibor MuseumHaimi counted at least 400 Jews of North African descent in the lists of deportees from France to Sobibor alone.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 07, 2021 19:33 UTC