El Shatt refugee camp

The Mother Dalmatia statue overlooking the El Shatt Croatian cemetery

The El Shatt was a complex of World War II refugee camps in the desert of the Sinai peninsula in Egypt, established in early 1944.[1][2][3] The region of Dalmatia (in today's modern Croatia, then Yugoslavia) was evacuated by the Allies, following the September 1943 Italian surrender and ahead of a German invasion. The camp was disbanded after the war ended, in March 1946.

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  2. ^ Bieber, Florian (2020). "Building Yugoslavia in the Sand? Dalmatian Refugees in Egypt, 1944–1946". Slavic Review. 79 (2): 298–322. doi:10.1017/slr.2020.85. ISSN 0037-6779.
  3. ^ Lovčević, Ninoslav (2009), Pustinjska priča - El Shatt (in Croatian), Hrvatska radiotelevizija, archived from the original on 2021-12-20, retrieved 2021-03-08