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.” Cyprus was at the time under British colonial rule.
Shoham, a professor at the Israeli Bar-Ilan University who also chairs an organization representing Jewish people interned in Cyprus, flew to Nicosia to attend on Tuesday a ceremony marking the 76th anniversary of the internment camps’ closure in February 1949.
