Descendants of Holocaust survivors mark 76th anniversary of Cypriot internment camps' closure

Snunith Shoham, a Holocaust survivor born in a Cypriot internment camp, attended a ceremony marking the closure of the camps in February 1949, where over 2,200 babies were born among the 52,000 survivors. The British allowed several hundred families with infants to leave the camps due to the dire conditions, with the help of sympathetic Cypriot workers. The internment camps in Cyprus served as a temporary refuge for Jewish survivors en route to Israel, forging a lasting bond between the two nations.

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