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Turkey: Istanbul Remembers WWII Jewish Refugee Tragedy | EurasiaNet.org

Turkey: Istanbul Remembers WWII Jewish Refugee Tragedy
February 24, 2012 - 2:42pm, by David Trilling

When he first arrived in what was, back then, British-controlled Palestine, no one was especially interested in hearing David Stoliar’s astonishing story, even though he was the sole survivor of the sinking of the SS Struma, a rusting steamer with almost 800 Jewish refugees aboard when it was torpedoed off the Turkish coast.

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