The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945

The Wehrmacht established a labor camp for Jews in Kasserine, around 75 kilometers (46.6 miles) north of Gafsa, in February 1943. The town had been captured during the offensive by Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel. The Jews interned here worked as forced laborers for the Wehrmacht and supplied units at the nearby front with ammunition and other supplies. On March 20, 1943, Allied troops began an offensive from Algeria in the direction of the Tunisian coast. During the Wehrmacht’s retreat, the camp was dissolved.