page_title: Jews escaping from German-occupied Europe to the United Kingdom
section_title: Displaced persons
hierarchical_section_title: Jews escaping from German-occupied Europe to the United Kingdom / After the war / Displaced persons
caption_attribution_description: English: Jewish Immigrants Leave Haifa For Internment in Cyprus, August 1946 A young Jewish boy immigrant is sprayed with DDT as he is about to board a British troopship for the journey to Cyprus.
context_page_description: After Adolf Hitler came into power in 1933 and enacted policies that would culminate in the Holocaust, Jews began to escape German-occupied Europe and the United Kingdom was one of the destinations. Some came on transit visas, which meant that they stayed in Britain temporarily, while waiting to be accepted by another country. Others entered the country by having obtained employment or a guarantor, or via Kindertransport. There were about 70,000 Jewish refugees who were accepted into Britain by the start of World War II on 1 September 1939, and an additional 10,000 people who made it to Britain during the war.
context_section_description: Concerned about provoking anti-semitism, there was a decision by the cabinet not to allow Jewish Holocaust survivors to immigrate, but there was a large number of other refugees immediately following the end of the war.
  There was little legal immigration to Palestine, but between 1945 and 1948 there were thousands of displaced Jewish people who attempted to enter illegally. Those who were caught were interned in detention camps in Cyprus.
  British Mandate authorities gave up control of the Palestine region after Jews rebelled against policies that continued to prevent immigration by refugees or Holocaust survivors. In 1947, the United Nations adopted a Partition Plan for Mandatory Palestine recommending the creation of independent Arab and Jewish states and an internationalized Jerusalem. The State of Israel was created in May 1948 and many Jews then in immigrated into the new country.
caption: Jewish immigrants leave Haifa for internment in Cyprus, August 1946
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