Metadata: Manuscript volumes from the British internment camps in Cyprus
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Holding institution (official language):
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Postal address:
- Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
- Phone number:
- 02380 592721
- Web address:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives
- Email:
- archives@soton.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- MS 323 A2054
- Title:
- Manuscript volumes from the British internment camps in Cyprus
- Title (official language):
- Manuscript volumes from the British internment camps in Cyprus
- Date(s):
- 1944/1949
- Date note:
- circa 1946/1949
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 0.12 linear metres: 3 volumes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Three manuscript volumes written in cursive Hebrew, with some Yiddish in volume 3, from the British internment camps in Cyprus for Jewish illegal immigrants to Palestine. The first volume contains copies of letters sent out on behalf of the internees, letters produced by the Religious Union; entry 105 is a list of burials without tombstones. The other two volumes contain copies of birth certificates and copies of marriages, some with papers inserted verifying to the legitimacy of the ceremonies and many entries bearing a red stamp on behalf of the Committee of the Rabbis.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Internment camps were run by the British in Cyprus between 1946 and 1949 to house Jewish immigrants who had attempted to immigrate illegally to Palestine. The two major camps were in Caraolos, north of Famagusta, and in Dekhelai, outside Larnaca. It is estimated that over 50,000 inmates were held in these camps over this period.
- Access points: locations:
- Cyprus
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the archive requires a prior written appointment. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/about/access.page
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/cataloguedatabases/webguide1.page
- Yerusha Network member:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
