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Oral history interview with Giacomo Nunez

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.90 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0571

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    Oral history interview with Giacomo Nunez

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    Interview Summary
    Giacomo Nunez, born November 27, 1927 in Tunis, Tunisia, discusses Tunisia’s community of wealthy Livornese Jews; his years at the Italian Regina Margherita school in Tunis; the rise of Italian fascism and his subsequent transfer to the French Lycée Carnot; the relations between Livornese Jews and other ethnic groups; the beginning of the war; his family’s acquisition of French citizenship; the exclusion of Jews and socialist teachers from the Lycée Carnot; the German occupation of Tunisia; his father’s forced participation in the Judenrat; the liberation of Tunis by the Allies; Italian soldiers’ resentment of their former German allies; the French and British military command’s reproach of Italians, including Livornese Jews, for supposed collaboration with Germany; his education in Tunis and Algiers after liberation; his horror upon learning the full extent of the Holocaust; and antisemitic violence after independence and the subsequent emigration of Jews from North Africa.
    Interviewee
    Giacomo Nunez
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2010 April 16

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Nunez, Giacomo.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Giacomo Nunez on April 16, 2010 in Chevy Chase, MD. This interview is part of a series of USHMM-produced interviews about Jewish life in countries in North Africa during the Holocaust.
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    2023-11-16 08:03:38
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