Thank you Edgar for sending us information about the synagogues of Varna
and this having been been the port of departure of the Struma.
Many other clandestine immigrant ships sailed from Varna.
In either December 1947 or January 1948, two ships registered in Panama
under the names "Pan Crescent" and "Pan York" left Varna
with a very large number of Romanian Jews hoping to get to Palestine.
As soon as they entered the Mediterranean Sea they were surrounded by
British destroyers and forced to go to Cyprus.
Quite a few Czernowitzers were on these two ships.
Mimi
On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:02 PM, Edgar Hauster wrote:
> Czernowitzers...
>
> Varna was the next stage during my ride to Istanbul. The two
> synagogues of Varna, the Ashkenazi and Sephardi, were nationalized.
> The Sephardi synagogue, around which the Jewish community was
> established, was used as a boxing ring for many years. The
> Ashkenazi synagogue was used until the beginning of the 1990�s as
> Judo club.
>
> http://hauster.blogspot.de/2015/07/no-more-judo-at-synagogue-of-
> varna-3919.html
>
> At the same time Varna was the port of registry for a small ship
> with a long history. It was launched as SS Xantha, but subsequently
> carried the names SS Soelyst, SS Sea Maid, SS Kafireus, SS Esperos,
> Makedoniya and finally MV Struma. We'll keep following Struma's
> course and her fate down to Istanbul.
>
> Edgar Hauster <iPad>
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