Jadu is located in the Nafusa Mountains,[2] twenty-five kilometers southwest of Tarmeisa (طرميسة, Ţarmīşah).[3]
History
Jadu was formerly the capital of the Nafusa Mountains District.[2]
Giado concentration camp
Giado, as it was then known by its Italian name, was the site of an Italian concentration camp during the Second World War.[4] In 1942, about 2,600 Jews [5] and other people, who were considered undesirables by Italians, were rounded up throughout Libya and sent to the Giado camp.[6]564 died from typhus and other privations.[7] The camp was liberated by the British Army in January 1943.
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