Cyprus detention camps: the essential research guide

Beginning in August 1946, stateless and visaless Jews, most of them survivors of the Nazi death camps who sought to immigrate to Israel were intercepted by the Royal Navy and deported to the nearby island of Cyprus, where they were detained in camps surrounded by barbed wire. This story has remained largely inaccessible due to the widespread dispersal of the primary sources and the linguistic difficulties presented by them. This book scrutinizes the scholarly literature, consulting hundreds of primary sources many of them previously unknown on three continents, bringing together interviews with scores of eyewitnesses, and translating foreign-language terms into English. The result is a comprehensive, meticulously footnoted guide that uses such tools as maps, a detailed timeline, and biographical entries to make this riveting saga accessible to a broad audience of scholars and general readers.