The fishing boat Thor, shown at a port in Denmark. The boat is believed to have ferried local resident Margot Benstock’s dad from Denmark, which had been invaded by the Nazis, to neutral Sweden in October 1943. Nearly 80 years after Danish fishermen used their boats to save Jews from Nazi persecution, the Florida Holocaust
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) The Florida Holocaust Museum is a place that largely reminds visitors of the inhumanity of which mankind is capable. Two Pinellas County women who lost grandparents to the Holocaust are helping to bring a message of humanity to the museum. They also have parents who escaped the Nazis due to […]
Two Florida women who lost grandparents to the Holocaust are helping to bring a message of humanity to the Florida Holocaust Museum. They donated a boat that was used to help people flee Germany, including one woman's father.
The Florida Holocaust Museum is a place that largely reminds visitors of the inhumanity of which mankind is capable. Two Pinellas County women who lost grandparents to the Holocaust are helping to bring a message of humanity to the museum.