STRUMA: challenging inhumanity

About the bookSTRUMA is the story of one of the hundred ships that sailed from the Balkans to Palestine through Turkey but it got stuck and became the most tragic one. Bureaucracy, hardened hearts of politicians who place no value on human life caused the death of 778 men, women and children with hopes, loves, fears, compassion, and longings. They were all left to drown in the cold waters of the black sea.The West stood and watched while Nazi fugitives remained in the ship with no motor, no medicine no food and worst of all no hope. Another black page in the history of humanity. When will it end?Zulfu Livaneli’s noteWhile Struma was the name of a river in the Balkans, the events that took place are a symbol of one of the great tragedies of humanity. The only survivor of this death ship was a young man named David Stoilar. In his book Aaron Nommaz, relates the life of David Stoilar first as a prospective young man in Romania with grace, sadness, and sensitivity. While telling, he is witnessing an era and a great tragedy.And at the end of the book, we can't help but ask the question; when will cruelty in the world end, when will wars end? When will the human race stop killing each other? Murders committed in the name of religion, nationality and race how long will it last? Nommaz's fluid novel answers these (perhaps unsolvable) questions with the only hope of the enlightenment of the hearts.