Photograph Of Camp Caraolos, One of Three Internment Camps on the Island of Cyprus Housing “Illegal Aliens”, Stateless Survivors of the Holocaust Who had Attempted to Reach Palestine Without Visas

Authors

Object ID

2022.1.8

Object Name

Photograph

Date

5-14-1948

Files

Description

Front: black and white photograph of youth with pails gathered around a water tap; tents in the background. Back: Associated Press typed description of image.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

[verso]: “Water Tap at Cyprus Detention Camp. Jewish Immigrants at Caraolos Internment Camp On the Island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea, gather at a water tap in the camp. The camp accommodates half of the 24,000 Jewish Immigrants who have been detained by the British after trying to reach Palestine without Visas. The camp, one of three on Cyprus, is dotted with tents and Quonset huts. The huts are communal kitchens. Hospital care for internees may be obtained in the British military hospital in Famagusta. Refugee doctors and nurses operate the camp infirmary and laboratory. Most of the Caraolos internees are from eastern Europe. They have their own camp director, and daily conferences are held with the British authorities to discuss camp problems.”

Dimensions

7 1/8 x 9"

Keywords

Cyprus, "Illegal Aliens", Internment Camp

Subcollection

Post

Recommended Citation

"Photograph Of Camp Caraolos, One of Three Internment Camps on the Island of Cyprus Housing “Illegal Aliens”, Stateless Survivors of the Holocaust Who had Attempted to Reach Palestine Without Visas" (1948). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2022.1.8.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1855