Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Cyprus internment camps (1946–49)
On the Refugee crises map as “The Cyprus camps”
Aug 1946–Feb 1949 — Britain interns Jewish refugees caught sailing for Palestine in camps near Famagusta. About 52,000 people passed through them, and some 2,000 children were born behind the wire. The last detainees left for Israel in early 1949.
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- Turning point
- Chapter
- Displaced persons camps after WW2 (chapter 4 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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