Pentcho. Príbeh parníka

On 18 May 1940 the paddle steamer Pentcho sails from the port of Bratislava with four hundred passengers. On board are young Jews, Zionists of the Betar organization and students expelled from university, who dream of their own state in British Palestine; later a hundred refugees fleeing a pogrom join them. No one has ever dared to sail a rusty river steamer down the Danube and across the seas from Bratislava to Haifa. With Paraguayan passports and borders across Europe closed to refugees, the voyage, planned for three or four weeks, is the only way left, and the British stand in the way of their dream. Written from interviews with four men, it is told as the voyage of those who would not wait with their hands in their pockets.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

330 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia, 1940

First published

2015 by Marenčin PT / Sandberg Film

Author's age

64 when first published

ISBN

9788081144950 (original)