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Three photos of Jewish immigrants arriving at Haifa, to include, Associated Press Wirephoto, 7-1/4” x 8”, showing British military standing over illegal Jewish immigrants. The newspaper clipping provides the background, “Refugees disembark at Haifa ... come out of the illegal refugee ship ‘Af al pi’ ... was at sea two weeks with 455 passengers ... the refugees were sent to Cyprus.” ... These Jews were detained in Cyprus camps until, the Independence of Israel which opened those camps and legally returned the immigrants as shown in ... A pair of official copy b/w prints, issued by Encyclopedia Judaica, 7” x 5”, showing the crowds of thousands awaiting on the docks for the arrival of the immigrant ship, pen identification in part, “Last Immg. arrives from camps at Cyprus, 1949..” and the second, “Arrival at Haifa awaiting the immigrants who were detained in Cyprus ‘49”. The Cyprus internment camps were camps maintained in Cyprus by the British government for the internment of Jews who had attempted to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine in violation of British policy. These are operated from August 1946 to January 1949, and in total held 53,510 Jews.