"Euxin: A Brave Voyage to Freedom" memoir

Identifier
irn514338
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.354
Dates
1 Jan 1960 - 31 Dec 1960
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514338

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Michael Ruleta donated his aunt's memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Sep. 2, 2003.

Scope and Content

Memoir tells the story of Lilly Shalit (nee Roth, ex-Abramovici) who tried to escape Romania in 1942 on the sailing boat "Euxin" with her husband, sister, and brother-in-law. The journey took them six months, as they travelled through the Black Sea and the Bosphorus towards Palestine. Turkish authorities would not let them land in Izmir, and they spent two months on the ship in the Bay of Izmir before the British consulate obtained visas for them to Cyprus. Although they wished to go to Palestine, they accepted the visas and spent Sep. 1942-April 1944 in Cyprus, until they were allowed to legally emigrate to Palestine.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.