Monday, February 4, 2013
Atlit - Visit to Illegal Immigration Camp
Sunday was back to the schools......and I love it more than
ever....the kids seem more excited to have us here and are all smiles and
laughs and I know what a good time I am having, so I think they must be happy,
too!
After lunch, we went to Atlit, , the English detention center
where so many Jews were held when they tried to get here illegally under the
British rule (when Israel, succombing to Arab pressure was making it almost
impossible for Jewish people to get here). They have done a great job in
this museum in the past 5 years.....I had not been here for at least 20 years.
They now have a boat, about the size of many that were transporting illegal
immigrants with a video presentation about the hardships of the trip....shown
in several different places, and looking out the portholes made you feel as if
you were at sea.....so one look was all I took, and then I felt as if the boat
were rocking. Of course, before the boat, we saw the quansut hut type
dormitories in which the detainees lived.....many of them coming there after
the war was over in 1945.......not until Israel was a state were all of the
people there given their freedom........just another awesome experience for us
lucky folks on this CAARI trip.
Rosalie Whitehill.
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