Testimony of Djoya Zoe Dostis Batish, born in Ioannina, Greece, 1920, regarding her experiences in Ioannina, Larissa, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Weisswasser

Testimony of Djoya Zoe Dostis Batish, born in Ioannina, Greece, 1920, regarding her experiences in Ioannina, Larissa, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Weisswasser Traditional family with many children; attends an Alliance school and a Greek school for handicrafts. Outbreak of the war between Greece and Italy; Italian occupation; detention of her father as a Greek Army officer; survival of her brother in a POW camp; German occupation; anti-Jewish decrees; concentration of the Jews of Ioannina, March 1944; transfer to Larissa on a truck; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train; first selection and separation from the remainder of her family members, who perished; camp life including forced labor exploding rocks; hospitalization in a hospital; transfer to Birkenau and labor in a sewing workshop; transfer to Weisswasser, Czechoslovakia with another 100 women inmates, late 1944; camp life including labor in a factory; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Greece; move to Thessaloniki; move to relatives in Athens; reunion with her brother; marriage; birth of her son; aliya to Israel, 1953.