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.

33°03′N 2°00′W / 33.050°N 2.000°W / 33.050; -2.000


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