Gift of Joan E. Gerstler in memory of Simon Kort

Id no. 46.96, Photograph, Italian, English

1940 to 1945, Italy, Libya, Civatella del Tronto, Africa

Subject(s):  Camps, Defiance-religious and cultural, Education

Simon Kort (born Berlin 1910, died New York 1994) taught a group of Libyan Jewish students under interment in the small Italian town of Civitella del Tronto. The chalkboard text reads: We are pupils