List of 301 Jews aboard the ill-fated refugee ship Mefkure sunk August 5, 1944 on its way from Constanta to Palestine. (ID: 33357)
Authorship or Source:
- Landé, Peter W.
- Gheorghiu, Serban.
- Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.
Year:
[2008]
Title or Main Description:
List of 301 Jews aboard the ill-fated refugee ship Mefkure sunk August 5, 1944 on its way from Constanta to Palestine. [Computer file]
Place Published or Holding Institution:
[Washington, D.C : Survivors Registry]
Description:
- 1 computer file in MS-Excel format (39KB)
- Number of Names or Other Entries-- 301 Names.
Type of Work:
Electronic resource
Alternate or Series Title:
- Mefkure.xls
- Tragedia navelor "Struma" si "Mefkure". Excerpts
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
Survivors Registry Collection [Computer files]: Available to authorized Survivors Registry staff only in the USHMM Computer Network folder S:\DATA\REGLISTS\Mefkure\.
Provenance:
Compiled by U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Survivors Registry volunteer Peter Landé from information in the book: Gheorghiu, Serban. Tragedia navelor "Struma" si "Mefkure" (Constanta : Editura Fundatiei A. Saguna, 1998).
Keywords:
- Mefkure (Ship) --Registers
- Shipwrecks --Black Sea --Registers.
- Jews, Romanian --Registers.
- Refugees, Jewish --Romania --Registers.
- Constanta (Romania) --Registers.
- Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. --Registers
- World War, 1939-1945 --Jews --Rescue --Romania --Registers.
- Romania --Emigration and immigration --Registers.
- Palestine --Emigration and immigration --Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Registers of dead --Romania.
- Tragedia navelor "Struma" si "Mefkure". --Excerpts --Translations into English.
Abstract:
List of 301 persons who were aboard the motor schooner Mefkure, which left the port of Constanta, Romania sailing under the Turkish and Red Cross flags carrying Jewish refugees to Palestine . On August 5, 1944 the ship was torpedoed in the Black Sea by a Soviet submarine. Most, though not all of the persons aboard the ship were Romanian Jews. The information in this listing is limited to names and ages.
Language and Other Notes:
Cataloger-assigned title.
Location of Electronic or Internet File:
S:\DATA\REGLISTS\Mefkure\