Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late afternoon rain was falling when the announcement came over the detention camp radio at Xylotombou, Cyprus. A young Jew scurried along the camp's muddy paths, blowing a trumpet as he ran. To Abraham Greenberg, the sound was like that of the trumpets that brought down the walls of Jericho long ago. Abraham ran to tell his wife Zahava. Their firstborn, Arie, was cutting his first teeth; he would be a Jew of Israel, the first of Abraham's family in centuries not to have another nationality. Abraham and Zahava and others in the camp built...
Path Blocked. He met other Jews who told him of Palestine, and explained to him that he could reach it from UNRRA camps in the U.S. zone. An American Jew, an official of UNRRA, smuggled him through to the Bergen-Belsen D.P. camp as an attendant on a trainload of pregnant women. He then found his way to Italy where, with 1,500 other Jews, he boarded the illegal immigrant ship Haim Arlosoroff...
...months later, in Xylotombou camp, at a Sabbath-Eve meeting of the youth training group, Abraham met Zahava. She, too, had been captured by the British in Haifa Bay, almost within touch of the Promised Land. She had been in charge of a group of Zionist children on the ship Theodore Herzl and had traveled to the coast with her Belgian parents' blessings...
...Sachsenhausen). "A transport of prisoners reached the camp. As usual they were counted . . . There were two men extra . . . and German figures must and shall come right. A few revolver shots . . . worked out the sum . . . the two were carried away...
March 24, 1945 (on a camp at Bergen-Belsen). "It was a common thing to get hold of a corpse to sleep on, so as to keep dry. Nor was cannibalism a rare phenomenon. One Norwegian saw a prisoner cut the liver out of a dead body...