The Untold Story of the Struma and World War II's Holocaust at Sea.
A riveting historical account of a doomed sea voyage of Eastern European Jews from Romania to Palestine during World War Two and the international intrigue surrounding it.
'Death On The Black Sea' is the powerful story of the desperate exodus of nearly 800 Jews from Nazi-occupied Romania to Palestine on board a decrepit former cattle barge, the "Struma".
Quarantined in Istanbul for two months, freedom blocked by wartime intrigue on an international scale, the disabled ship was towed to the Black Sea and sunk mysteriously by a Soviet submarine on 24 February, 1942. One person survived. The story of the "Struma", its passengers and the events that led to its demise are investigated and revealed fully for the first time in this book.
The narrative follows two parallel story lines. One chronicles the diplomatic manoeuvres in Great Britain, Palestine, Romania and Turkey. The other recounts the recent attempt by a team of divers to locate the remains of the "Struma", an effort initiated and pursued relentlessly by Greg Buxton, the grandson of two of the victims.
