Deportations of Jews from Greece to Nazi-held Poland are continuing notwithstanding the protests of church leaders, including that of the Archbishop of Athens, the Hellenic News Service reported here today.
The Greek news agency estimates that for the period up to March more than 13,000 Jews were sent from Greece to Poland. In the town of Demotica, it reports, all Jews were rounded up on the main square, on May 4, and publicly lashed prior to their being packed into cattle trains for deportation to Poland.
“In two other towns,” the Greek report says, “the Nazis collected all the Jews, deprived them of all their belongings and shaved off the heads of men and women alike. They then forced the men to strip bare and march nude through the streets to the railway stations where they were herded into cattle trains for deportation. Sixty to eighty persons were packed in each car. After the Jews left, the Nazis ransacked their homes, confiscating anything of value remaining. Much of the loot, especially the kitchen utensils, were sent to Germany.”
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