The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Cyprus Operation, 1945-1949

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Cyprus Operation, 1945-1949  

Cyprus Operation In August 1946, British authorities established a policy of deporting illegal immigrants to Palestine to barbed-wire detention camps on Cyprus, then a British protectorate. From 1946 until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the British confined over 53,000 Jewish deportees, primarily Holocaust survivors and refugees, in 12 detention camps on Cyprus. JDC was granted permission to work in these camps to supplement the meager services provided by the British. JDC staff, under JDC's Cyprus Country Director, Morris Laub, set up an extensive relief program, which included food, clothing, medical care, cultural and educational activities, and vocational training.  

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Cyprus Operation, 1945-1949