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Struma disaster

Struma disaster

The Struma disaster was the sinking on 24 February 1942 of a ship, MV Struma, which had been trying to take nearly 800 Jewish refugees from the Axis member Romania to Mandatory Palestine. Wikipedia
Number of deaths: 781
Location: Black Sea
Date: February 24, 1942
Target: The ship Struma, carrying Jewish refugees from Romania to the British Mandate of Palestine