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Eighty years ago this week, 700 Jews drowned because no one in the world would take them in

ISRAEL FROM THE INSIDE “Surplus Jews” no longer by Daniel Gordis February 21, 2022 Eighty years ago this week, on February 24, 1942, nineteen-year-old David Stoliar was alive, alone, floating on a piece of wood in the middle of the … Continue reading

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David Stoliar, sole survivor of Soviet-torpedoed Struma, has died

NEW YORK TIMES David Stoliar, Survivor of World War II Disaster, Dies at 91 by Robert McFadden January 23, 2016 For more than a half-century, David Stoliar remained a silent witness to the worst civilian maritime disaster of World War … Continue reading

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