Tuesday 6 May, 7 pm UK time, 9 pm Israel.

It is 80 years since 130 Libyan Jews were brutally killed during three days in November 1945 in Tripoli and elsewhere in Tripolitania. Shops and homes were looted, synagogues burnt down, such as the Zawia synagogue shown here, and property destroyed. This tragic episode, which is hardly known was followed by a second pogrom in 1948. Over 90 per cent of Jews participated in the Aliyah starting in 1949.

What happened exactly and what were the root causes? Oral historian Vivienne Roumani-Denn has made a study of these terrible events and gathered survivors’ testimonies.

Vivienne Roumani-Denn is a film-maker, oral historian, writer and past Judaica Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley and Executive Director of the American Sephardi Federation. She has interviewed Jews from Libya and recorded their stories on the first website of its type. Her films, The Last Jews of Libya (2007), narrated by Isabella Rossellini, and Out of Print (2013), narrated by Meryl Streep, have premiered at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival. She is working on a book based on the oral histories she has collected.

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