Transport from Serres, Serrai, Macedonia, Greece to Treblinka, Extermination Camp, Poland on 05/03/1943

The operation for apprehending the Jews of Seres (numbering almost 500 people) began at 2 am on March 4. The entire city was encircled by Bulgarian army forces in order to prevent escape. Eighty teams consisting of three policemen and gendarmes each were engaged in rounding up all the Jews, sealing their houses, and assembling them in one building in the city. The Jews were allowed to bring up to 40 kilograms of luggage and were directed to bring all their money and valuables. The assembly camp where the Jews were held until their transportation from Seres was set up in the tobacco warehouse, a four story building in the eastern part of the town belonging to a local merchant (Maroulis). Another tobacco warehouse was emptied in order to store furniture and household goods that were confiscated from Jewish homes....