Portrait of the Rot family, taken by a photographer in Munkacs ghetto, Hungary, 1944. After the Holocaust, Miriam—the eldest daughter—recovered this photograph. It is the only surviving portrait of her family. Photograph »

A view of a British detention camp that held 11,000 illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine. Cyprus, August 1946-February 1949. Photograph »

One of the tent camps used to detain Jewish displaced persons denied entry into Palestine by the British. Cyprus, August 1946-February 1949. Photograph »

Jewish refugees in a Cyprus detention camp protest the restrictive British policy on immigration into Palestine. These refugees from Europe were sent to Cyprus after reaching the shores of Palestine by ship. Cyprus, 1946. Photograph »

Refugees crowd the rail of the Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Josiah Wedgwood," anchored at the Haifa port. British soldiers transported the passengers to the Atlit internment center. Palestine, June 27, 1946. Photograph »

British soldiers transfer children refugees from the Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Theodor Herzl" to a vessel for deportation to Cyprus detention camps. Haifa port, Palestine, April 24, 1947. Photograph »

The Jewish refugee ship "Pan-York," carrying new citizens to the recently established state of Israel, docks at Haifa. The ship sailed from southern Europe to Israel, via Cyprus. Haifa, Israel, July 9, 1948. Photograph »

Jacob and Miriam Eshel, ca. 2000. Photograph »