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70 Years on, Jewish Survivors Detained in Cyprus Remembered

Nechema Friedman says her parents often recalled how the months they spent in a detention camp in Cyprus after World War II nurtured their desire to plant roots in Palestine. The 69-year-old returned to the east Mediterranean island on Wednesday along with dozens of fellow Israelis also born in Cyprus to mark the 70th anniversary of the camps where 52,000 Holocaust survivors were interned by the British. Cyprus' Defense Minister Christoforos Fokaides unveiled a memorial at a...


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