On February 23, 1942, policemen stormed the Struma, cut the anchor chain, tugged the ship back into the Black Sea and set it helplessly adrift.
Early the next day it was sunk by a Russian torpedo. There was ultimately only 1 survivor.
When I think of the current brutality of Turkey now in Efrin, it makes me wonder what was learned from WWII.
ping
Russians are bastards.
Amazing hadn’t ever even heard of this. In terms of WWII this was a minor story. It’s astonishing that things of this magnitude wouldn’t even make the paper back then. Just another ship sunk; happened every day.
An incredible tragedy, and one that has been missed in all of
the tragedy coming from World War II.
More than a few allied servicemen were killed when the hell ships transporting them towards Japan were sunk.
Another Jewish refugee ship suck by the Russians. Only 5 survivors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Mefk%C3%BCre