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Testimony

Testimony of Dario Levi, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1923, regarding his experiences in Katarini camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, clearing rubble from the former Warsaw Ghetto, and in a Polish village while using a false identity His childhood in Thessaloniki in a religious-Zionist home; attends the Alliance Jewish school. German occupation, April 1941; concentration of the Jewish men in Plateia Eleftheria square; selection; deportation to Katarini camp; labor paving roads; return to Thessaloniki; yellow badge; restrictions on movement; work for a Jewish greengrocer; deportation to Auschwitz by train;...

File Number : 13305

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shem Tov Iulis Kambelis, born in Trikala, Greece, 1934, regarding his experiences in Trikala and in hiding in a village in the mountains in the Thessaly region

Testimony

Testimony of Shem Tov Iulis Kambelis, born in Trikala, Greece, 1934, regarding his experiences in Trikala and in hiding in a village in the mountains in the Thessaly region From a traditional, Ladino-speaking family. German occupation, spring 1940; positioning of an Italian unit close by; billeting of the commander of the Italian orchestra in his house; rumors about deportations, 1943; typhus; his father's decision to lead the family in an escape to the mountains; refusal of his grandfather to escape; in hiding in a village in the mountains along with 11 families; protection and help from Communist...

File Number : 13008

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Sami Yom Tov Indov, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Buna and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Sami Yom Tov Indov, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Buna and other places Life before the war; well-to-do traditional family; death of his parents in 1935; Beitar activities. German occupation, 01 April 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; concentration and registration of the youth in Liberty Square, summer 1942; deportation to forced labor in a train factory; deportation to the Thessaloniki Ghetto, 1942; unsuccessful attempt to find a hiding place at a non-Jewish female neighbors; deportation to Auschwitz,...

File Number : 12914

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chava Eva (Zigler) Itzkovitz, born in Chemnitz, Germany, 1922, regarding her experiences in hiding in Athens

Testimony

Testimony of Chava Eva (Zigler) Itzkovitz, born in Chemnitz, Germany, 1922, regarding her experiences in hiding in Athens Life before the war; life in Chemnitz including Kristallnacht. Witness obtains Greek citizenship with her father's help; family escape to Athens; life in Athens; German occupation; life in hiding; her father's escape to Thessaloniki; her father's death; life using a false identity and known as Glefria Kalroyanis; studies painting; liberation. Life in Athens including contact with a soldier from Eretz Israel serving in the British Army; receives a certificate; aliya to Eretz...

File Number : 12724

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara Fortis, born in Khalkis, Greece, 1926, regarding her experiences using a false identity in Khalkis and with the partisans in Athens

Testimony

Testimony of Sara Fortis, born in Khalkis, Greece, 1926, regarding her experiences using a false identity in Khalkis and with the partisans in Athens Life before the war; death of her father; attends school; relations with the non-Greek population. Outbreak of war with Italy, 1940; work as a nurse in a hospital for wounded Jewish soldiers; her uncle is killed in combat; German occupation; life using a false identity with her mother in a cellar; escape due to suspicion of being Jewish; move with her mother as a non-Jewish teacher with the help of the EAM to a village; life in the village and work as a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Choniu Honio) Israel, born in Rhodes, Greece, 1922, regarding her experiences in Haidari, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Raguhn

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Choniu Honio) Israel, born in Rhodes, Greece, 1922, regarding her experiences in Haidari, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Raguhn from a well-to-do Sephardi family; life before the war. German occupation, September 1943; deportation by boat to Athens, 20 July 1943; detention in Haidari camp; deportation to Auschwitz; arrival at Auschwitz, 15 August 1943 [should be: 1944]; selection with her younger sister; transfer to a detention camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; separation from her sister who is ill with typhus; transfer in the direction of Buchenwald; transfer to Raguhn; camp life including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Joint testimony of Rachel (Menahem) Asael, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1919, and Berta (Menahem) Sulema, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1917, regarding their experiences in Thessaloniki, in hiding in Athens and the mountains Life before the war. Italian occupation; German occupation, March 1943; escape to Athens; life in Athens; hidden by Greeks while using false identities; escape to the mountains; contact with the Greek and Jewish underground. Aliya to Eretz Israel with help from smugglers, 1944.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rafael Konstantinis born in Zakynthos, Greece, 1927, regarding his experiences in Zakynthos and in hiding in villages

Testimony

Testimony of Rafael Konstantinis born in Zakynthos, Greece, 1927, regarding his experiences in Zakynthos and in hiding in villages Life before the war; attends a Christian school and Talmud Torah. Outbreak of the war, 1940; escape to the nearby villages; life during the Italian occupation; German occupation, 1943; liberation by partisans, 1944. Return home; civil war; aliya attempt from Patrai, 1946; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946; absorption.

File Number : 12682

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Negrin, born in Athens, Greece, 1925, regarding his experiences in Athens and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Negrin, born in Athens, Greece, 1925, regarding his experiences in Athens and with the partisans Life before the war. Italian occupation; German occupation; decrees against the Jews including persecution; help from the local population; joins the partisans; combat; wounded; liberation. Aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 2490

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Marco Nahon, born in Greece, regarding his experiences in Demotika, the Saloniki Ghetto and Brzezinka

Testimony of Marco Nahon, born in Greece, regarding his experiences in Demotika, the Saloniki Ghetto and Brzezinka German occupation; life in Demotika including receiving information about impending deportation of Jews; deportation to the Saloniki Ghetto; ghetto life including help given to Jews by the local people, the church and Greek policemen; deportation to Brzezinka; camp life including labor at construction; murder of Jews; death march; list of those murdered and survivors.

File Number : 2793

Type of Material : Memoirs, List of Murdered Persons, List of Survivors

Language : French, English

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