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Oral history interview with Dimosthenis Mouliotis

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.530.3 | RG Number: RG-50.855.0003

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    Oral history interview with Dimosthenis Mouliotis

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    Interview Summary
    Dimosthenis Mouliotis, born in 1922 and raised in Ioannina, Central Western Greece, describes his experience as a Greek Christian during the Italian/German occupation (1941-1944); farming with his father, Kostantinos, raising livestock and cultivating corn, wheat, and tobacco; not having any Jewish friends, but getting to know Jewish business people; selling cows for beef; his memories of the Rabbi, who had a special way of slaughtering the cows; the Jews in the community, who were merchants of fabrics, house goods, groceries, meat, dairy, and other goods; how Jewish stores, which were located on Anexartisias (Independence) Street, were closed on Saturdays; the lack of distinctions between Christians and Jews; how the Jews, as well as some Christians, lived insight of the Castle and in the immediate surrounding area (Kormanio); the general belief in Ioannina that the Jews were hard working people, honest, straight forward, and minding their business; the beginning of the war and the arrival of the Germans, who left soon after; life during the Italian occupation; the German occupation, during which the Italians were treated as second class citizens, like the occupied Greeks; the cruelty of the German occupiers; the marking of Jewish house in the neighborhoods by the local Christians under the direction of the Germans and Greek police; rumors during that time; the urging of Jews to escape by the non-Jewish locals; his memories of a very cold Saturday morning when the Jews were mounted to about 50 army covered trucks, guarded by German soldiers, and transported out of the city; how after the Jews were deported, the city organized a commission to distribute the Jewish merchandise to victims of the war (injured or lost family members); his thoughts on rumors about looting; the few Jews who returned after the war (he estimates 70 out of 1,000), and how many of them immigrated to Israel or elsewhere; and his memories of the returning Jews getting their houses and stores back.
    Interviewee
    Dimosthenis Mouliotis
    Date
    interview:  2014 November 12
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Greek
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:33:33
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