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Oct 7, 2012 · Homepage. Israel travels. Relive the Great Escape, from Atlit detention camp. In 1938, the British attempted to stop waves of refugees arriving from Hitler’s Germany by building a prison south of...
Many of those imprisoned at Atlit had escaped from Nazi persecution in Europe, but upon arriving on the shores of Israel found themselves incarcerated once again behind barbed wire. On the night of October 9, 1945, Palmach fighters led by Nachum Sarig broke into the Atlit camp and freed the prisoners in a daring raid.
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The Atlit detainee camp opened in 1940 to hold “illegal” (well, in the eyes of the British) Jewish immigrants who were intercepted in their attempt to reach Palestine. The Atlit camp would hold up to 4,000 detainees at a time, and tens of thousands of Jewish detainees were held there over the years.
- Who Were The People Living in Atlit Yam?
- Atlit Yam's Megaliths
- The End of Atlit Yam
Atlit Yam is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement submerged off the Carmel coast of Israel. Atlit Yam is an important archaeological place because the well-preserved finds at the site have provided scientists with helpful information about the burial practices of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic society. This is a subject researchers possessed little knowle...
Researchers examined Atlit Yam's megalithic installations and suggested these structures were used for certain rituals. An artist's reconstruction of the Atlit Yam's large stone circle was looked like. Credit: Photography by Yosef Galili, Ehud Galili, Itamar Greenberg - CC BY-SA 3.0 The ritual installation of megaliths, "consists of seven stones (1...
Sadly, the inhabitants of Atlit Yam, who relied on the sea in their daily life lived in a place that was not meant to survive. It is unknown how many people lived in the village at the time, but though it seems the village was abandoned before the natural catastrophe, some people may have still have perished when the waves covered the Neolithic set...
The camp at Atlit, established by the British government in the 1930s, was surrounded by barbed wire and watchtowers. Many of the detainees during the 1930s and 1940s were Jewish refugees from German-occupied Europe. At Atlit camp, the men were sent to one side, women to the other.
The Atlit Detainee Camp was in place until 1945 when Jewish forces broke into the camp, allowing all the detainees to escape. The site continued to be used for detainment purposes during other conflicts, but it became a national monument in 1987.
ATLIT. In 1939, the British turned a military camp at Atlit, 20 km. south of Haifa, into a detention camp for illegal Jewish immigrants. When the Holocaust ended in 1945, the battered and bereft survivors were stuck in Displaced Persons camps in Germany and other European locations.
