The Atlit detention camp was constructed by the British Mandate in Eretz Israel, at the end of the 1930s, as a military camp on the Mediterranean coast. It was converted between 1939-1948 to a detention camp for “illegal“ immigrants who found themselves, yet again, incarcerated behind barbed wire, but this time on the soil of Eretz Israel.
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GregFW, on November 10, 2008, said:
The Atlit detention camp was constructed by the British Mandate in Eretz Israel, at the end of the 1930s, as a military camp on the Mediterranean coast. It was converted between 1939-1948 to a detention camp for “illegal“ immigrants who found themselves, yet again, incarcerated behind barbed wire, but this time on the soil of Eretz Israel.
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