Deep-Sea Divers Hope to Salvage Struma: Refugee Ship Was Torpedoed Off Turkey in 1942 with 769 Aboard

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Arnold, Michael
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Deep-Sea Divers Hope To Salvage Struma: Refugee Ship Was Torpedoed Off
Turkey in 1942 With 769 Aboard

By MICHAEL ARNOLD

FORWARD STAFF

RAMAT GAN -- An amateur deep-sea diver from Great Britain is mounting an
international expedition in the Black Sea next month to salvage the remains
of the Struma, a Jewish refugee ship that was sunk en route to Palestine in
1942, killing 768 Jews on board, including the expedition organizer's
grandparents.

The organizer is Greg Buxton, a computer analyst by trade, who helped find
and document the Titanic's sister ship, Brittania, sunk ...

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