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Athens - Auschwitz (Trans. Nikis Stavroulakis) Hardcover - 1983

by Sevillias, Errikos (Trans. Nikis Stavroulakis


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  • Title Athens - Auschwitz (Trans. Nikis Stavroulakis)
  • Author Sevillias, Errikos (Trans. Nikis Stavroulakis
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Greek Ed.
  • Publisher Lycabettus Press, Athens
  • Date 1983
  • ISBN 9789607269003
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Athens - Auschwitz

by Sevillias, Errikos [Trans. Nikis Stavroulakis]

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Athens: Lycabettus Press, 1983 Book. Illus. by Tr. Nikos Stavroulakis. New. Hardcover. 1st Greek Ed.. Moving personal testimony of the way the Jews were deported from Greece to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation. Errikos Sevillias was born in Athens in 1901 into a Sephardic family. He learned how to work in leather as a child and opened his own leather workshop when he was 16. From 1919 until 1923 he served in the Greek army, for three years fighting in Asia Minor. After the war he reopened his workshop, married, and had a daughter. Life, as he writes, "went along well" until he experienced "an inexplicable and unexpected great adventure," meaning Auschwitz. Errikos Sevillias was killed in Athens by a motorcycle in 1974, when he was 73 years old. The manuscript of this book was found among his papers after he died. He describes the appalling events at Auschwitz with extraordinary calm, saying merely that he couldn't understand "what they wanted in doing such… Read More
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