Giado concentration camp | |
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Italian concentration camp | |
![]() Giado concentration camp | |
Coordinates | 31°58′8″N 12°1′10″E / 31.96889°N 12.01944°E |
Location | Giado, Libya |
Built by | Fascist Italy |
Commandant | Ettore Bastico |
Operational | May 1942 – January 1943 |
Inmates | Jews |
Number of inmates | 2,600 (approximate) |
Killed | 562 |
Liberated by | British Army |
Notable inmates | Frija Zoaretz |
The Giado concentration camp was a forced labor concentration camp for Italian and Libyan Jews in Giado, Libya (now called Jadu), operating during the Second World War from May 1942 until its liberation by British troops in January 1943. The camp was established on the orders of Benito Mussolini, the Prime Minister of Italy. At the time, Libya was under Italian colonial control and was known as Italian Libya.
Of the 2,600 Jews who were imprisoned there, 562 died, mostly from hunger and louse-borne typhus. Due to its poor conditions, Giado had the highest death toll of all the North African labor camps in World War II, and its victims make up the highest number of Jewish victims of World War II in the Muslim world.