Cyprus Detention Camps papers

Identifier
irn515820
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2003.465.1
Dates
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1948
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • Romanian
  • Hebrew
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

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

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.