Solly Border speaks of the tragedy of the ship “Struma”, which sailed on December 12, 1941, from Constanta, Romania, en route to British Mandate Palestine. The Struma was torpedoed and it sank off the coast of Sile, Turkey, on February 24, 1942. He relates that his parents lived with feelings of guilt for the rest of their lives for having helped three of his cousins purchase tickets for the journey. The cousins perished on board the Struma Ship.

For help researching the deportation of Jews in France during the Holocaust, French scholars turned to the USC Shoah Foundation and its French liaison Emmanuel Debono.