Athens - Auschwitz
by Sevillias, Errikos [Trans. Nikis Stavroulakis]
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 9607269004
- ISBN 13
- 9789607269003
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About This Item
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 an unjust and evil thing." His simple statements of events give the clearest possible image of the indescribable. The manuscript was translated by Nikos Stavroulakis, who also has provided an extremely useful historical outline of the Jewish presence in Greece with a description of the occupation and final solution. 125p.+ plates.
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 041015
- Title
- Athens - Auschwitz
- Author
- Sevillias, Errikos [Trans. Nikis Stavroulakis]
- Illustrator
- Tr. Nikos Stavroulakis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Greek Ed.
- ISBN 10
- 9607269004
- ISBN 13
- 9789607269003
- Publisher
- Lycabettus Press
- Place of Publication
- Athens
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- AUSCHWITZ JEWS IN GREECE NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Jews in Greece; Greece 1940-1945 (WW II);
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