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A lofty undertaking, author Diane Armstrong meticulously details the journey of more than 500 passengers who traveled aboard the less-than luxurious ship – the Derma – in August 1948 from the port of Marseilles to Australia and New Zealand. Immediately following World War II, the ship consisted of those who had been persecuted in Germany and Eastern Europe, who had been in death camps and labor camps, and those who had both welcomed and been hunted by the Nazis. The author was nine years old at
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