WATCH: Holocaust Survivors Locked Up in Cyprus Remembered 75 Years Later

Jewish immigrants to pre-State Israel, deported from Haifa by the British, crowd around entrance to the internment camp in Famagusta, Cyprus August 26, 1946, after their arrival. (AP/Frank Noel) (AP/Frank Noel)

The memory of the thousands of Holocaust survivors detained in internment camps in Cyprus will be immortalized in the new Cyprus Jewish Museum.

52,000 Holocaust survivors fleeing Europe were prevented from reaching Israel, then British Mandate Palestine, and were instead interned in detention camps in Cyprus.

Although an often forgotten part of history, the conditions were terrible and many died of disease.

Seventy-five years later, as many former detainees are elderly and many have passed on, their memories will be immortalized in the new Cyprus Jewish Museum.

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