SAF-SAF
The Wehrmacht labor camp at Saf-Saf was founded on December 13, 1942. Initially, 200 Jewish forced laborers were interned there. On January 13, 1943, a group of these forced laborers was able to return to Tunis. They quartered in the Alliance School (École de l’Alliance). Jacob André Guez described the prisoners in his diary: “They leave now, filthy, flea-ridden, all dressed in tunics.”
The Jews had to excavate trenches, erect fortifications and observation posts, and transport supplies to the front. German soldiers guarded the inmates in the camp and from posts on the surrounding hills. There was a system of front leave (permission), on the basis of which the Jewish forced laborers could be sent home for a few days before returning to the labor camp. The camp was dissolved in February 1943, with some of the forced laborers being transferred to the Cap Serrat camp and others to Sedjenane.
