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Nine Survived, Five Hundred Twenty-Three Never Returned: SS Donau
Nine Survived, Five Hundred Twenty-Three Never Returned: SS Donau
The number nine versus five hundred and twenty-three is chillingly precise: historian Kristian Ottosen documented that nine people who boarded the SS Donau in Oslo on 26 November 1942 survived the war, while 523 did not. How did a refrigerated cargo ship built for refrigerated fruit and meat become the instrument of Norway’s largest single Jewish deportation-and who bears responsibility?
In this episode, we trace the Donau’s transformation from a 1929-built Norddeutscher Lloyd refrigerated cargo vessel into a wartime transport…
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