Death on the Black Sea: The Untold Story of the 'Struma' and World War II's Holocaust at 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...