Tendrara
Rural commune
Country Morocco
RegionOriental
ProvinceFiguig
Elevation
1,450 m (4,760 ft)
Population
 (2014)[1]
 • Rural commune15,390
 • Urban
8,507
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+1 (WEST)

Tendrara is a town and rural commune in Figuig Province, Oriental, Morocco. According to the 2004 census, the town had a population of 6,254.[2]

Near Tendrara, there was a labour camp (French: camp de travail) for Jews during the Vichy era. The prisoners who labored there—–Jews from Warsaw, Leipzig, Salzburg, and Bucharest as well as Spaniards and others—lived in tents.”[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "POPULATION LÉGALE DES RÉGIONS, PROVINCES, PRÉFECTURES, MUNICIPALITÉS, ARRONDISSEMENTS ET COMMUNES DU ROYAUME D'APRÈS LES RÉSULTATS DU RGPH 2014" (in Arabic and French). High Commission for Planning, Morocco. 8 April 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  2. ^ "World Gazetteer". Archived from the original on 2012-09-19.
  3. ^ Satloff, Robert (2006). Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands. New York: Public Affairs. p. 67. ISBN 1586483994.

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