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Every year, the Hebrew calendar date of 27 Nissan is set aside as Yom Hashoah, the annual day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust. In Israel, a siren wails and traffic comes to a halt as people pause to solemnly reflect on lives lost. How we arrived at this date is something many […]

In December 1941, some 791 passengers crammed aboard the SS Struma, having paid for safe haven from Nazi-controlled Roumania. On February 24, 1942, having been denied entry by Turkish and British officials, all but ten were killed by a torpedo in the largest loss of life in the wartime immigration into Palestine. [[READMORE]] JTA first published […]