Former inmates of Nazi concentration camps - Holocaust Survivors - orphaned children and youth from Sweden were after recuperation in Sweden imprisoned again on Cyprus.

The youngest Maapilim in British detention camp on Cyprus.

Graphics between WWII

In 1946 the British government decided to deport illegal Jewish immigrants caught trying to make their way to the British-ruled Eretz Israel. Most of the Maapilim were Holocaust survivors just liberated from Nazi concentration camps. sending them to detention camps in Cyprus, British-controlled island.

Over the next three years, 52,000 Jews, trying to enter Eretz Israel were sent in 39 prison ships to Cyprus, where internment camps were operated jointly by the British Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, the Mandatory Government and the British Army.

During the period of detention, 2,200 babies were born to families interned in the camps.