Elefterios S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1429) interviewed by Elaine Exarhos, Callie Pacelli, and Zelda Kaplan

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.