Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Greeks liberated in Bergen-Belsen came to Sweden by White Boats.

Laura was arrested on Rhodos 1944, brought to Pireus and from there in cattle wagons to Auschwitz. Together with her were her parents, brothers and grandmother. Laura was in several camps after Auschwitz and finally liberated from Bergen-Belsen. She was brought to Sweden during UNRRA mission White Boats. The photograph is her Medical Card from the hospital in Lund.

I love Greek islands, Corfu and Rhodos. In early seventies I was there several times. I met some of the Holocaust survivors there. This as they saw that my wife had the Fatima hands and due fact that we spoke Polish. I knew that there were Jewish Greek inmates in Treblinka, Auschwitz and as well in the camp in Warszawa where they work at the ruins of Warszawa Ghetto. Almost 10 000 Greek Jews were brought to Warszawa. During the Warsaw uprise they were liberated and several succeeded to survive hidden in the woods around Warszawa.

On June 9, 1944, some 1,795 Corfu Jews were transported by the Greek police under the orders of the Nazi statute. A few managed to escape to the villages and were hidden there by friends. Their arrest began when they were rounded up in the city square and closed in a fortress known as the "Ferrario". The Jews of Corfu were taken out of the fortress in the middle of the night, and small boats and rafts were transferred to Athens, where they were interned in the city jail, Haidari. Together with Jews from other places in Greece such as Rhodes, all the Jews were put on a closed train that reached the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp on 30 June 1944. About two-thirds of them, men, women and children, were immediately sent to the gas chambers and crematoria. Few, almost all of them young, survived Auschwitz and the death marches. Several were liberated on April 15 in Bergen-Belsen.

Abram Melo and his wife Leonora and probably also his 5 children were deported from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz in April 1944.

Melo Molo Molho Abraam Abram with Lübeck number L: 164 arrived to Uddevalla on 28 juni 1945 with White Boat from Lübeck. Abram Melo and his wife Leonora were deported to start with to Auschwitz.

Melo Samuel född den 12 februari 1925 son till Abram och Leonora lämnade first 68 year after he, his brother and father were liberated in Bergen Belsen. His mother Eleonora (Leonora) Melo, 34 yars old,, his sisters, Susanna 10 years old and Elvira 3 years old and his 12 years old brother Benico were murdered in gas chambers upon arrival. Samuel and his brother Bernhard (born 1924) and their father Abram (Aberto) survived the selection. Father and his two sons were transferred to one of the worst subcamps of the Auschwitz - Goleszów camp or AL Golleschau located in the vicinity of Ustroń, a mountain resort now in Poland. AL Golleschau was evacuated on January 18th 1945 by a death march that ended in Bergen-Belsen. It is likely that also Abram Melo two sons were brought to Sweden. His son Bernhard finished his medical education in Rome and Paris and returned to Sweden where he worked as dentist. Samuel Melo wrote about his experiences during the Jolocaust in Hudisk Krönika in May 1950.

Samuel Melo wrote about his experiences during the Holocaust in Judisk Krönika in May 1950.

It was like in the East Europe, in February 1943, German authorities concentrated the Jews of Thessaloniki - Salonika in two ghettos. The ghetto in the western quarter was near the old railway station that was thereafter used for the deportations in the cattle wagons to the death- and concentration camps. Between March and August 1943, the Germans deported more than 45,000 Jews from Thessaloniki to the Auschwitz death camp. Most of the deportees were gassed on arrival in Auschwitz. After evacuations of KL Auschwitz 1944/1945 numerous inmates ended in Bergen-Belsen. NAHMIAS Abrahamiris 1917 appeared in the newspaper see link: https://www.infocenters.co.il/massuah/multimedia/Docs/pdf/disk20071206/44563.pdf

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It was like in the East Europe, in February 1943, German authorities concentrated the Jews of Thessaloniki - Salonika in two ghettos. The ghetto in the western quarter was near the old railway station that was thereafter used for the deportations in the cattle wagons to the death- and concentration camps. Between March and August 1943, the Germans deported more than 45,000 Jews from Thessaloniki to the Auschwitz death camp. Most of the deportees were gassed on arrival in Auschwitz.

300 Jews that were holders of Spanish identity papers ended in Bergen-Belsen. About 500 Jews escaped to nearby mountains and joined partisans.

Almost 1 700 Thessaloniki born Jews were deported to the death camps from France.