Jews held in concentration camps in Tripolitania, prior to the British capture of the area, were forbidden by the Italian authorities to hold prayer meetings under pain of severe punishment. The Italians feared that the Jews would pray for an Allied victory, persons arriving here from Tripoli today report.
The Italians also forbade the Jews to study the Torah and the Talmud during the day, and when the internees began to study at night, this was also forbidden. Finally, the camp inmates devised a scheme whereby the older, learned Jews conducted classes from memory, which the Italians had no way of preventing.
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