Cyprus Detention Camps papers
Extent and Medium
folders
oversize folders
11
2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Irvin Ungar sold the Cyprus detention camps papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003.
Scope and Content
The Cyprus Detention Camps collection consists of collected administrative records, immigrant papers, and printed materials documenting the British army’s administration of detention camps established in Cyprus at Kraolos and Dekalia to hold Jewish immigrants illegally trying to enter Palestine. The collection includes administrative correspondence; a program for a British military performance of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; identification and immigration papers and luggage tags documenting a number of Romanian immigrants; and newspaper and magazine articles documenting the immigration efforts of Jewish refugees to Palestine. Topics addressed in the administrative correspondence include political and religious groups among the refugees, procedures for the arrival and movements of immigrants, escapes and attempted escapes, supply shortages. Immigrant papers primarily consist of identification papers of Romanian immigrants who were presumably held in the Cyprus detention camps and shipping tags, presumably used by immigrants held in the camps. Printed materials include three issues of The Cypriot and clippings describing the Cyprus detention camps, immigrant ships, and Palestine.
System of Arrangement
The Cyprus Detention Camps papers are arranged as three series: I. Administrative records, 1946-1948, II. Immigrant records, 1943-1947, III. Printed materials, 1946-1948
Subjects
- Jewish refugees--Cyprus.
- Refugee camps--Cyprus.
- Holocaust survivors--Cyprus.
- Cyprus.
Genre
- Document