Buq Buq labor camp

Buq Buq labor camp
Buq Buq labor camp
Italian concentration camp, labor camp
	A signboard at the entrance to Buq Buq labor camp. The Hebrew text reads "שדי" (Shaddai, meaning 'God almighty'). The abbreviated Italian text means "labor camp for Jewish workers". The name "Mose Haddad" refers to the senior overseeing prisoner of the camp, a Jewish engineer named Moshe Hadad.
	Buq Buq within Egypt
Coordinates	31°30′39″N 25°32′03″E / 31.510806°N 25.53425°E
Other names	Buqbuq, Buk Buk, Bukbuk, Bug Bug, Boq Boq, Bog Bog, Baq Baq
Location	Buq Buq, Matrouh Governorate, Egypt
Operated by	Fascist Italy
Operational	Late August–November 6, 1942
Inmates	Libyan Jewish males aged 18–45
Number of inmates	350 (approximate)

The labor camp at Buq Buq^[a] was a forced labor camp for Libyan Jews, operated by Italy between August and November 1942 at the Egyptian-Libyan border in Buq Buq in Egypt's Matrouh Governorate. The camp was established in the context of the Axis occupation of Egypt in World War II. Buq Buq's 350 prisoners were exclusively Libyan Jewish men between the ages of 18 and 45, mostly from Tripoli and the surrounding area, who were transferred to Buq Buq from the Libyan Sidi Azaz labor camp.^[1]

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^ "Italian-Occupied North Africa". The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, vol. III: Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany. Indiana University Press. 2018. pp. 527–528. ISBN 978-0-253-02373-5.

[:02-2] "Italian-Occupied North Africa". The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, vol. III: Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany. Indiana University Press. 2018. pp. 527–528. ISBN 978-0-253-02373-5.

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