Testimony of Abraham Ashkenazi, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1939, regarding his experiences as a toddler in Thessaloniki, Larissa, using a false identity in Athens and other places, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

Testimony of Abraham Ashkenazi, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1939, regarding his experiences as a toddler in Thessaloniki, Larissa, using a false identity in Athens and other places, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Life before the war; traditional family; his family owns a leather tanning factory; draft of his father into the Greek Army, 1940. Outbreak of the war, 1941; local air-raids; finds a hiding place with his family in a cellar of a store; escape back to the family's home; escape of his father before deportation and his unsuccessful attempts to convince his family members to join the escape; obtains forged documents; escape to the Italian occupied zone; escape to Larissa; escape to Athens; life in Athens using a non-Jewish false identity; work by the adults in a leather factory; escape to various places due to being informed on; payment of bribery to Greek police officers; interrogation by a police officer and adhering to a false story; his family makes contact with the Greek underground; escape with a group of Jews and Greek Army officers; helped by using forged documents; escape on a fishing boat to the border of Turkey; escape to Syria; life in Syria including meeting people from the Haganah organization; move by train to Lebanon; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944.