Mefkure

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Mefkure
Monument to the sunk Mefküre in Ashdod
Monument to the sunk Mefküre in Ashdod
Ship data
flag TurkeyTurkey Turkey
Ship type Passenger ship
Owner Jean D Pandelis
Launch 1929
Whereabouts Sunk on August 5, 1944
Ship dimensions and crew
length
35 m ( Lüa )
measurement 52 GRT
 
crew 7th
Machine system
Transport capacities

The Mefküre was a ship that was sunk in 1944 by a Soviet submarine with Jewish refugees on board .

Historical background

The Mefküre was a motor saver that was supposed to bring Jewish immigrants to Palestine at the time of the Holocaust , for which he cast off from Romania in August 1944 . This ship was one of several that Ira Hirshenson had chartered on behalf of the US government to rescue Romanian Jews. The ship sailed under Turkish registration and carried the neutral flags of the Republic of Turkey and the Red Cross . It went in convoy with the Bulbul and Morina ships , each of which carried over 300 passengers.

Sinking

On the morning of August 5, 1944, from 1:20 a.m. to 1:57 a.m. Moscow time, the Mefküre was torpedoed in the Black Sea by the Soviet submarine SC-215 . 300 people died or drowned immediately. There were eleven survivors.

Commemoration

In Ashdod there is a monument that commemorates those who were killed.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c מפקורה SS Mefküre Mafkura Mefkura. In: Haapalah / Aliyah Bet date = 2011-09-27. Retrieved March 26, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b Jan Lettens: SV Mefkure († 1944). In: The Wreck Site. December 24, 2012, accessed August 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ami Isseroff: Mefkure - definition in. In: Zionism and Israel - Encyclopedic Dictionary. Archived from the original on July 2, 2014 ; accessed on August 5, 2019 .

Coordinates: 42 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  N , 30 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E