Pogroms against the Jews of Algeria under the Nazis

Name of speaker: 
Sara ʾAtias
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
83
Year of immigration: 
1955
Speaker's country of origin: 
Speaker's community of origin: 
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke, Suzi and Raḥamim Cohen
Year of recording: 
2018

Translation: 

At first, there was a good relationship between the Muslims and the Jews. They even used to invite one another to weddings. The Jews did not eat at Muslim weddings; just watched the celaebrations and played a musical instrument called Zarman. The Arabs came to Jewish weddings, ate and participated in the celebration.

Until the Germans came (during World War II). That was on a Shabbat day, suddenly aircrafts covered the skies and darkened the day. We ran to the road, but we did not exactly have anywhere to run away to. There were Muslims who exploited the situation.

There were Arabs who liked my father and warned him of those who wanted to hurt him. The suggested he should hide in his shop so he would not get hurt (her father was a goldsmith).

These acts were conducted by the Muslims under the hands of the Nazis who ordered them to harass the Jews.