Italian internment camp, El Obeid, Sudan, c.1944

Title: Italian internment camp, El Obeid, Sudan, c.1944
Description: The photograph features Mario Barbagallo (right), son of Josephine Barbagallo (nee Giries Kattan) playing tennis with another internee in an internment camp in El Obeid, Sudan. All Italian civilian nationals living and working in Sudan were interred in camps such as this one until the end of the Second World War. Rules in the camp were quite relaxed and some recreational activities such as tennis were permitted.
Identifier: pb_wk_kfp_7276118
Subject: Bethlehem; Palestine; Palestinian Diaspora; Kattan Family Photos collection; Bethlehemites in Sudan; World War II; Internment camp in Sudan
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Creator: William Kattan
Contributor: William Kattan
Type: Digital scan of a black and white photograph. Dimensions unknown.
Source: William Kattan
Spatial Coverage: 13.183366/ 30.222559
Rights Holder: William Kattan
Date (approximate): c.1944

Item sets: Kattan Family Photos Collection; The William Victor Kattan Collections