Testimony of Lili Golani Meiri, nee Molkho, born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1935, regarding her experiences in the ghetto Baron Hirsch and in hiding in Athens.

Testimony of Lili Golani Meiri,nee Molkho,born in Thessaloniki,Greece in 1935,regarding her experiences in the ghetto Baron Hirsch and in hiding in Athens. Childhood in Thessaloniki; death of eldest brother in civil war in Spain,1936; helping Jewish refugees,1939; German occupation,1941; life under German regime; restrictions and prohibitions; air-raids; German officers taking over the family house; expulsion from school and moving to nuns' school; expulsion from nuns'school; getting help in food supply from German officer Hans Miller,who stayed in their home,1942; uncle's escape to Athens; suicide of German officer; deportation with family to open ghetto; deportation to Baron Hirsch ghetto,1943; starvation; living conditions in ghetto; buying Italian nationality with help of Italian consul Mortugo; transfer to transport train to Auschwitz; they were taken off train by Italians thanks to their Italian nationality; transfer to Athens; life under Italian occupation ; German occupation; hiding in different places in Athens with relatives of uncle's Greek wife ,christian,with fake identity with the name Eleni Nuklaido; father's hiding with Greek admiral Bedimos Kolores; hospitalization of middle sister in hospital for mentally ill; eldest sister's hiding in mountains with help of communists partisans; escape to father's hideout; parents'arrest following delation and their deportation; liberation by the British,1944; moving to uncle and his family in Athens; civil war in Athens after end of war; aliya to Israel,1945; absorption.