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Testimony of Esther Coen, Survival of Auschwitz Esther Coen is one of the survivors of Auschwitz. She was a kid when they took her and her family to the concentration camp. It was really difficult and painful to describe her experience and what she remembers. She lost all of her family there. |
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Testimony of Marios Papadopoulos Mr. Marios Papadopoulos was an adolescent 13 years old when the war started in Greece. The place where he lived was an important spot for the war because Italians entered Greece from Albania. He mentions the preparations of the government for the war and the difference between Italians and Germans as enemies. |
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Testimony of Paraskevi Boussiou & Christos Kamaras Ms. Paraskevi is a woman that describes the story told by her parents. She lost her uncle in one tragedy during the war. The Germans closed 40 men in a house and burned them alive in her village. Mr. Christos Kamaras was a kid when Italians came to his village. He describes his teacher and how he treated the Italians as well as one famous event in his village. |
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Testimony of Katerina Ioakeimidou, Thessaloniki Katerina Ioakeimidou is a resident of Thessaloniki. She was 3-4 years old when the war started. She describes many moments in her life during the war, such as how they moved into a Jewish house, how they used to hide in the shelters when they bombed the town, and the fear of daily life... She also mentions the heroism of her father to go to the war despite being old for the military. |
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Testimony of Eleni, Lesvos The grandmother Eleni, lives in Lesvos, a northeast island in Greece. She was born in 1933 and she tells us stories of her life during WWII and also the civil war that broke out exactly after WWII. This was between communists and the right political party, the nazis. Stories of what she remembers and from what she has heard. She also describes how her family hid some people in her house in order not to be killed by the Germans. |