- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Elefterios S., a Greek Orthodox shepherd, who was born in Koumariá, Greece in 1914. He recalls invasion by the German and Bulgarian armies in 1941; hiding their own weapons in February 1942 rather than following orders to surrender them to the Germans; the murder of four men from his village by the occupying troops; escaping to the hills during German attempts to confiscate food and livestock; and organizing 150 men into a resistance group. Mr. S. recounts hearing of anti-Jewish measures in Trikala, the closest town where Jews lived; organizing and leading the escape of about twenty Jewish families to Agreliá; hiding two of the families in his home; German retaliation for resistance activities, including mass killings; subsequent Greek acts of revenge against the Germans; and the Jewish families' return to Trikala (some emigrated to Palestine) after the German retreat; He notes he was mayor of his village in the 1950s and 1960s and has continuing close relations with the Jewish families he saved.
- Author/Creator
- S., Elefterios, 1914-
- Published
- Peabody, Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 1987
- Interview Date
- December 5, 1987.
- Locale
- Greece
Trikala (Greece)
Agreliá (Greece)
Koumariá (Greece)
- Cite As
- Elefterios S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1429). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Exarhos, Elaine, interviewer.
Pacelli, Callie, interviewer.
Kaplan, Zelda, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in modern Greek.
