Detention Camps in Africa, Gilgil Camp, Kenya - Correspondence with Newspaper Editors in Eretz Israel, Jewish Federation in U.S. the Netherlands, South Africa, and Hapoel Hamizrachi Organization in Tel Aviv

22.05.1947 - 23.06.1948

Reference Code : K 15 - 4/ 37

Archive: Detention Camps in Africa
Material status: Scanned

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Correspondence with: Journalist Association of Israel, editors of Haaretz, Haboker, Davar, Hamashkif and others.
Main topics: request to send newspaper editions and Hebrew literature to Kenya. Sending arrest and exile book to newspapers editors. Detention camps in Africa affair and critique of Yishuv for not working for them. Deportee activity to transfer camp to Israel. Difficult living conditions in camp. Demand from Government of Kenya to return deportees. Rejection of return to Israel due to armistice. Requests to publish demand to return deportees to Israel, pleas to Yishuv to work on behalf of deportees, news from camp from day of Declaration of Independence of State of Israel.