Giado

Israel 2023 | Directors: Golan Rise & Sharon Yaish | Hebrew & Italian with English subtitles | 55 minutes

Documentary

At the age of 20, Yosef Dadosh was among 3,000 Benghazi Jews sent to the Giado concentration camp in the heart of the Libyan desert during World War II. He secretly kept a diary of the ordeal, capturing the harrowing existence endured by the camp’s inmates. For seven decades, the diary remained locked away, hidden even from his own children, until his passing. Now, Dadosh’s granddaughter Sharon Yaish – co-director of this deeply personal documentary – shares his story. Utilizing interviews, animation, reconstructed models of the camp, and haunting excerpts from the diary, this beautifully crafted film sheds light on the experiences and plight of North African Jewry during the Holocaust -a subject that has been left under-discussed and largely treated as a historical footnote.