Odyssey
TitleOdyssey
Author
Call number325.5694/0007
Object number01264
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
PublisherSimon & Schuster
Year of publication
1984
Physical description255p.
MaterialBook
ISBN0671501569
Notes
The last great escape from Nazi-dominated Europe - the story of those Jews who gambled their lives for freedom and won.
The last great escape from Nazi-dominated Europe - the story of those Jews who gambled their lives for freedom and won.
Description
More than 500 Jews crowded aboard the paddle steamer Pentcho in May 1940 in Bratislava, the capital of the Nazi puppet state of Slovakia. It was a journey that should have taken a month, but four years of frustration and severe hardship would pass before they finally reached Palestine.
