Pessah Galette Factory
Passover is an 8-day festival, usually held in March or April, that commemorates the Israelites’ liberation from enslavement in ancient Egypt. During Passover Jews eat matza, to represent the unleavened bread Jews took with them as they left Egypt. In Tunis, the Baranes brothers, Haim Victor and Nessim owned a factory that produced Matza next to the girls’ school on the Rue Arago. It was from this site that the Jews of Tunis would purchase their packed of Matza every year. The Baranes brothers died in the 1950s and are buried in the Borgel cemetery. Their extraordinary tomb was designed in the shape of a Matza oven.