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Mefkure was a motor schooner chartered to carry Jewish refugees from Romania to Palestine, sailing under the Turkish and Red Cross flags. On August 5, 1944, while crossing the Black Sea, it was torpedoed by the Soviet submarine SC 215 and sunk, killing 345 people.

See also

• Struma

References

1. Joseph M. Levy, "Refugee Boats Attacked", New York Times, August 17, 1944

External links

• SC 215 record
• Mefkure - Definition

• Jewish Romanian history
• Romania during World War II
• History of Bulgaria
• History of Republic of Turkey
• Shipwrecks in the Black Sea
• Ships sunk by Soviet submarines
• The Holocaust
• Zionism