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Yafran, also spelled Jefren, Yefren, Yifran, Yifrin or Ifrane, is a city in northwestern Libya, in the Jabal al Gharbi District in the western Nafusa Mountains. Before 2007, Yafran was the administrat
Top: The view from the city of Yafran; Middle Left: Yellow blossom flowers blooming in spring; Middle right: Ancient church in Yafran; Bottom left: The ancient ruin town of Yafran Bottom right: The houses in Yafran covered with snow
Watch tower near Yefren
Synagogue in Yefren
During the Italian colonization of Libya the Kingdom of Italy established concentration camps in the areas of modern Libya under its control in order to better subjugate the local population and to mo
Yafran
…1910–1922, they suffered persecution by the local Arab population; some of them fled to Tripoli. During World War II, Jews from Cyrenaica were brought to labor camps in Yafran; some Jews were later deported to the Giado concentration camp. After the Tripolitania riots in 1945, most of the Jewish population moved to…
Inmates at the Sid Ahmed el Maghrun concentration camp
Omar al-Mukthar
Members of the nomadic tribes of Cyrenaica with their herds during their forceful transfer to the Italian concentration camps.
Administrative subdivision of Italian Libya