Death on the Black Sea

“A meticulous, judicious, at times searing chronicle” of the Struma disaster. “It will leave no reader unmoved” ( Chicago Tribune) . On the morning of February twenty-four, 1942, on the Black Sea near Istanbul, an explosion ripped through a decrepit former cattle barge filled with Jewish refugees. One man clung fiercely to a piece of deck, fighting to survive. Nearly eight hundred others—among them, more than one hundred children—perished. In Death on the Black Sea , the story of the Struma, its