Press Photo: Preparing to Leave Famagusta, Cyprus For Israel

Authors

Object ID

2022.1.4

Object Name

Photograph

Date

1-1-1949

Files

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Description

Black and white photograph with focal point being nurse and woman exchanging a baby in blankets. Men are wearing “MC'' armbands.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Holocaust survivors preparing to leave one of the detention camps on the island of Cyprus seven months after Israel declared statehood. They would be part of the final evacuation of internees, since the British mandate had ended on February 14, 1947. Israel began to bring the internees home in December 1948. The last internees were evacuated during January and February 1949.

Dimensions

5 1/8 x 7 1/4"

Keywords

Cyprus, DP Camp, Displaced Person

Subcollection

Post

Recommended Citation

"Press Photo: Preparing to Leave Famagusta, Cyprus For Israel" (1949). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2022.1.4.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1851