Detention Camps in Africa, The Camp in Gilgil, Kenya - Correspondence with Newspaper Editors in The Camp in Gilgil, Kenya - Various Countries

19.03.1947 - 01.07.1948

Reference Code : K 15 - 4/ 38

Archive: Detention Camps in Africa
Material status: Scanned

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Correspondence with newspapers editors in Johannesburg, London, Cairo, Nairobi, Paris, Tunis, New York, Munich and Eretz Israel.
Main topics: Detention camps in Africa affair and critique of Yishuv not working on their behalf. Request to send newspapers to detainees. Purchase of subscriptions and books by newspapers editors. Preparations for return to Israel and rejection due to armistice. Inquiries about articles and news written in the newspaper.
Requests to publish demand for return of deportees to Israel, photographs and material written by deportees, news from camp the day of Declaration of Independence of State of Israel. Newspaper item about deportees' plea to United Nations. Includes correspondence in French.