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  Science Fair Projects - Atlit detainee camp
In the 1930s and 1940s, Atlit detainee camp was used by the British authorities to detain illegal immigrants to Palestine.
Athlith is located 20 Km south of Haifa.
Atlith camp was reopened in 1945 after the World War II, as more and more "illegals" arrived in Palestine.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Atlit_camp   (387 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Darien II
Though the Darien was British property, the Mossad sent her to Istanbul and from there to Romania in October 1940, the refugees from Cladova didn't arrive so they put aboard 800 refugees from Romania and Bulgaria including survivors from the Salvador, after a series of adventures the Darien II arrived in Haifa.
The British Mandate government consficated the ship (they already owned it) and put the passengers in Athlith detainee camp for 18 months.
Pole Star was built in Glasgow, Scotland in 1892 for the Northern Lightships board, after changing owners several times became the Darien II, after 1941 the British navy turned the Darien II into cold storage ship and it suplied fresh food to Allied troops in besieged Tubruk and Malta also Sicily and Italy.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Darien_II   (393 words)

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