October 31st 2011
Tonight Professor Emanuel Gutmann, who worked in the British detention camps during the late 1940s will deliver a lecture about this extraordinary period in Cyprus history.
To give you a sense of how these dreadful camps operated, I have taken an article from the Cyprus Mail archives which I wrote back in April of this year.
The story features two remarkable men, one in Larnaca, the other in Famagusta. Both men, who are now in their eighties, worked at the camps.
Between 1946 and 1949, twelve "Jewish internment camps" on the east coast held the equivalent of almost ten per cent of the population of Cyprus at that time.