Mefkure
Monument to the sunk Mefküre in Ashdod
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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
- Struma , Bulgarian ship sunk in 1942
- Rudnitchar , refugee ship 1939/40
- Exodus , immigrant ship, 1947
- St. Louis , refugee ship
- Aliyah Bet
- List of Aliyah Bet refugee ships
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c מפקורה SS Mefküre Mafkura Mefkura. In: Haapalah / Aliyah Bet date = 2011-09-27. Retrieved March 26, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Jan Lettens: SV Mefkure († 1944). In: The Wreck Site. December 24, 2012, accessed August 5, 2019 .
- ↑ 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