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Postcards sent by Jacob A. Avayou from Serres to his sister Louna in Eretz Israel, 1940, including a translation of the postcards into Hebrew

Postcards sent by Jacob A. Avayou from Serres to his sister Louna in Eretz Israel, 1940, including a translation of the postcards into Hebrew Included in the file: - List of Avayou and Cohen family members from Serres and Thessaloniki who perished during the Holocaust; - Memoirs of Itzhak Rousso regarding his return to Athens after the German Army retreat, October 1944; his departure from Athens in order to fight the Italians during the war, 28 October 1940; return to Athens, where none of his relatives remained; murder of his relatives in an extermination camp, March 1943.

File Number : 2047

Type of Material : Postcard, List of Murdered Jews, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, French, Ladino

Oath of Allegiance to the Greek Army written in Ladino

Oath of Allegiance to the Greek Army written in Ladino Note: The swearing-in ceremony was conducted in the presence of a rabbi (whose name is not given) and Greek Army officers; Photocopy of the oath. David Dario Zvi was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1927; His sister, Stella (Zvi) Hasid, was born in 1919, and her husband, Shem-Tov Hasid, was born in 1910 (they met in Thessaloniki before the war) and made aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; Oath of Allegiance to the Greek Army taken in Ladino by the Jewish soldiers (the rabbi translated the oath into Ladino from the Greek); The photocopy belongs to...

File Number : 3

Type of Material : Documentation

Language : Ladino

Testimony of Yakov Cohen, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna and Dora camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yakov Cohen, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna and Dora camps Life before the war; witness attends an Alliance school; service in the Greek Army, from 1939; service in combat in Albania. Outbreak of the war, 1941; German occupation; deportation to the "Baron Hirsch" Ghetto, February 1943; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; transfer to Buna; camp life; labor in the "sewage Kommando"; transfer to another Kommando; sells slacks sewn by a friend in exchange for cigarettes; exchanges the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Simcha, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1917, regarding his experiences as a Greek Army soldier in Athens, in Auschwitz, Katowice, Mauthausen and Gusen

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Simcha, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1917, regarding his experiences as a Greek Army soldier in Athens, in Auschwitz, Katowice, Mauthausen and Gusen Life before the war; attends a Talmud Torah; economic distress and help from the Jewish community Committee. Displays of antisemitism and pogrom, 1933; drafted into the Greek Army, 1938; military service in a military hospital; help in releasing Jewish soldiers from the Albanian front; transfer to a military camp in Athens, 1940; desertion from the army; return to Thessaloniki occupied by the German Army; escape to a village and his former...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony

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...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gabriel Isach, born in Florina, Greece, 1929, regarding his experiences in Kastoria, Pindus and Grevena

Testimony

Testimony of Gabriel Isach, born in Florina, Greece, 1929, regarding his experiences in Kastoria, Pindus and Grevena Life before the war. Italian-Greek war, 1940; death of her brother in combat; German occupation, April 1941; decrees including the yellow badge; escape to Kastoria, middle 1942; deportation by the police commander; escape to Pindus; wanderings in villages; escape to Grevena; life in Grevena including work as a messenger for the partisans; typhus; wanderings; malaria; liberation. Aliya training in Athens; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.

File Number : 12857

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Robert Shaki, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1920, regarding his experiences in captivity in Iraklion, with the Greek partisans, the Thessaloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz, Goleszow and other places From a well-to-do family; displays of antisemitism and reactions of the Jews; German occupation, 1941; draft into the Greek Army; taken captive by the Germans at Iraklion; hides his Jewish identity; release; return home; activities with the Greek partisans; help to people escaping to the hills; anti-Jewish legislation, early 1943; transfer of his father's business to a non-Jew; deportation to the Thessaloniki...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tuvia Parente, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Greek Army, as a Greek POW in Italian captivity in Milan and Marseilles

Testimony

Testimony of Tuvia Parente, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Greek Army, as a Greek POW in Italian captivity in Milan and Marseilles Traditional family; attends an Alliance shool and a private school; visit of Aba Hushi who was an emissary from Eretz Israel; drafted into the Greek Army, 1938; service in Albania; Greek POW in Italian captivity, 1941; detention in Milan; transfer to Marseilles, 1943; camp life and labor as a porter in the port; attitude of the German supervisors; injury; liberation. Move by the US Army to Eygpt; work in the British Army; aliya to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lina Perakhia, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1923, regarding her experiences in Thessaloniki, Athens, Auschwitz and Birkenau

Testimony of Lina Perakhia, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1923, regarding her experiences in Thessaloniki, Athens, Auschwitz and Birkenau Life in Thessaloniki with her family, before the war. Outbreak of the war; deportation to the "Baron Hirsch" Ghetto on Synrou Street with her parents, brother and sister, February 1943; decision by her family to move to another ghetto after the departure of the first transport from the ghetto; decree regarding wearing a yellow badge, 25 February 1943; move of her brother by kayak to Athens; move of her brother to Kymi; move to the home of her father's sister; move to...

File Number : 6574

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Greek

Memoirs of Marie [Mordechai] Mor, born in Veria, Greece, 1911, regarding the rescue of her family in Greece, 1940-1945

Memoirs of Marie [Mordechai] Mor, born in Veria, Greece, 1911, regarding the rescue of her family in Greece, 1940-1945 Experiences of the family before the war; outbreak of the Greco-Italian War, 28 October 1940; draft of her husband and two brothers to the Albanian front; preparation of hiding places in surrounding villages; air-raids; Christian refugees in the city; provision of a place to live and food by Kiria Vaso, a Christian woman; return of her husband from the front, December 1940; occupation of Greece by the Germans, March 1941; concentration of Jews in labor camps; juxtaposition of rumors...

File Number : 5853

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews, Memoirs

Language : English

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