A 600-year-old gold embroidered curtain, which hung for hundreds of years on the Ark of the Law in one of Tripoli’s oldest synagogues, was sent by the Jewish community there to Gen. Montgomery, commander of the British Eighth Army, as an expression of thanks for his ordering the destruction of the ghetto which the Axis administration established for the Jews in the City during the Libyan campaign.
Reporting this fact, the Nazi-controlled Tunisian radio urged the Arabs to take note of the fact that “the treacherous Jews of Tripoli” have been promised by the British that all anti-Jewish laws will be abolished. The Nazi broadcaster also reports that all Jews in Tripoli who were held as hostages by the Axis powers were released as soon as the British forces entered the city.
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