"Bintivi-Ha'apla" The Illegal Immigration Database

General Information

Facility Director: Zahavit Rutenberg
Archivist: Naomi Izhar
Address: Mahane Ma'apilim Atlit, P.O.B 189, Atlit, 30350
Phone: 972-4-984-1980
Fax: 972-4-984-2814
E-mail: shimurm@netvision.net.il
Website:
English Version
Hebrew Version
Hours of Operation:
Friday: 9:00 - 13:00
Consultation: By appointment only
Closest Public Transportation:Atlit junction bus-stop / Haifa new central train & bus station [there is not any transportation from Atlit train station]
Bus: From Tel-aviv [Arlozorov station] Bus no. 910 direction Haifa
From Haifa Bus no. 221 direction Atlit
Access for Disabled: Yes

Description of Resources

Under construction.

Biographies/Autobiographies: Both

Public Research Guides: Brochure

Name Changes: In the process of collection

Ship Lists: Yes

Immigration/Refugees: Yes

Community Records including vital records: In the process of collection

Photograph Collections: Yes

Collection on Genealogy and family history: In the process of collection

Memorial Books: Yes

Holocaust Related Sources: Some

Lists of victims/Survivors: Yes

Name Indexes: Yes

Resource Books: Yes

Jewish Organizations: Yes

Military: Yes

Oral History Collectiosn: Some

Map/Postcard Collections: Some

Cemeteries: Some

Manuscript Collections: Yes

Electronic Resources: Some

Yes

The database located at the open museum and offers a tour at the preserved and reconstructed detention camp of Atlit, including the camp-model, the living-barrack, the disinfection-hall, an audiovisual program and a small sort of Ma'apilim boat and authentic British train-wagons, military vehicles and collection of original items and tools that found at the camp.

2.5 NIS

Some