In 2018, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum published an “Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos” in the countries and colonies controlled by Nazi Germany’s allies. For the first time, it described in detail the more than 100 little-known camps of the fascist Axis powers in North Africa. The encyclopedia was edited by the Moroccan historian Aomar Boum, Professor of Anthropology and Sephardic History at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Starting from Jewish-Muslim relations in the 1930s, in his lecture Aomar Boum describes the consequences of Vichy rule for the Jewish population of North Africa and for refugees from Europe, the function of the labor camps in the region and the current state of research on the subject.

Moderation: Esther Möller (Centre Marc Bloch). 

The event will be held in English. Bitte beachten Sie: Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.

An event organized by the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial in cooperation with the Asia-Africa Institute of the University of Hamburg (Nora Derbal, Islamic Studies), the Institute for the History of German Jews, the Hamburg State Agency for Civic Education and recherche international e. V.

Admission is free. We kindly ask you to register by May 11, 2025