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This camp was established by the British Mandate for Palestine at the end of the 1930s. It was located 20 km from Haifa, Israel. The purpose of the camp was to stop Jewish refugees from entering Mandatory Palestine. Many of the detainees from Europe during the 1930s and 1940s were from Nazi controlled countries. By the late 1940s they were Holocaust survivors.
The British government in 1939 limited Jewish immmigration to Israel to 75,000 people for 5 years. After that number, Jews who tried to enter Israel were considered "illegal immigrants" and sent to Atlit Camp.
Please add those who were detained at this camp from the late 1930s to 1940s.