Holocaust world war 2 Survivor Isaac Nehama testimony coupled with real time historical testimony from Gaza holocaust world war 3
My family tree is many generations lived in Athens, Greece.
My father was the accountant for a company which imports textiles and sell
wholesale. My grandfathers were founder of a school and president of the Jewish
community. Athens before the war had 2,000 Jewish people in a city of 1 million
in contrast to nearby cities which had tens of thousands of Jewish inhabitants.
I was in Jewish youth groups since the age of 10. My father was determined I
should be an engineer. 1941 Germany invaded Greece, I was 16 years old. I
worked in the black market exchanging foreign currency until 1943 a pall
descended, our relatives in Salonika were in a mass deportation. When the Jews
were told to register in Athens we knew this moment that our whole family will
need to go into hiding. I traveled to the border of Albania and stayed with the
partisans on a very steep mountain top, many of these partisans were Italian
soldiers who had defected from Italy and gone into hiding. Because of my youth
I was given the job to answer the phone from headquarters and take messages.
Soon I was given the duty to deliver messages to other camps, everyone was
under a British command. 17 years old I was put to work decoding the stream of
telegraph messages from British headquarters and typing the orders with a
typewriter. June 1944 orders began to come from a new headquarters in Beirut,
to carry out specific sabotage operations upon the retreating German army.
August we begin to hear the distant booms of artillery and see at night the
illumination of the horizon. The Germans are in a well organized retreat,
abandoning Greece. We receive orders to descend from the mountain and meet with
groups in the liberated cities of Thessaly plains. A girl from my hometown
finds me and tells me my father is looking for me and come home as quickly as
possible. My father was crying when I came home and he could not speak the
words to tell me where is my mother and my brothers. We had lost part of our
family in the deportation on the last transport that left Greece in August,
only weeks ago, and they did not ever return home.
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The words of Isaac coupled with testimony from Gaza
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