A01=Rosie Whitehouse
Author_Rosie Whitehouse
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Holocaust
Israel
Middle East
Nation-building
Palestine
Refugees
Second World War
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9781805261629
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 2024
- Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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One summer’s night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests and endured death marches—now they were taking on the Royal Navy, running the British blockade of Palestine.From Eastern Europe to Israel via Germany and Italy, Rosie Whitehouse follows in the footsteps of those secret passengers, uncovering their extraordinary stories—some told for the first time. Who were those people on the beach? Where and what had they come from, and how had they survived? Why, after being liberated, did so many Jews still feel unsafe in Europe? How do we—and don’t we—remember the Holocaust today? This remarkable, important book digs deep and travels far in search of answers.
Rosie Whitehouse, a journalist, writes about Holocaust survivors for BBC Online, the Observer, Tablet magazine, The Jewish Chronicle and Haaretz. She is the author of Two Sisters (forthcoming from Hurst), and the Bradt guide to Europe’s Holocaust memorials, museums and sites.
