Descendants of Holocaust survivors mark 76th anniversary of Cypriot internment camps' closure
Snunith Shoham says she was only a few months old in February 1947 when British authorities permitted her family to leave one of around a dozen internment camps in Cyprus that held tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors and head for “the homeland.”
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