Struma (Ship): World War II, British Mandate of Palestine, Revisionist Zionism, Ion Antonescu

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Struma was a ship chartered to carry Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to British-controlled Palestine during World War II. On 23 February 1942, with its engine inoperable, the ship was towed from Istanbul through the Bosporus out to the Black Sea by Turkish authorities with its refugee passengers aboard, where it was left adrift. Within hours, it was torpedoed and sunk by the Soviet submarine SC 213 on 24 February, killing 768 men, women and children, with only one survivor. It has been called "largest naval civilian disaster of the war" although greater numbers of civilians perished alongside military personnel on larger ships like the Wilhelm Gustloff, Cap Arcona, RMS Lancastria and Juny¿ Maru.