Detention Camps in Africa, The Camp in Sambel, Eritrea - Correspondence with Rabbinate of Eretz Israel
12.12.1944 - 27.01.1947
Reference Code : K 15 - 2/ 15
Archive:
Detention Camps in Africa
Material status:
Scanned
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k15\115887.pdf
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Request by detainees to chief rabbis to protest their expulsion, problem of religious suppression and severe lack of kosher food, harsh living conditions in the camp, encouraging messages from rabbis to deportees, problem of reduction of food quantity, request by deportees to transfer bodies of Naftali Lubinchik, Shaul Hagalili, and Eliyahu Ezra for burial in Eretz Israel, request to transfer one of the injured in clash with camp guards, providing food for Passover, fear of Sudanese guards.
Letter to Chief Rabbi of England requesting intercession with British authorities about harsh living conditions in the camp.

