ON THE LIFE AND EVERYDAY ROUTINE OF THE PEOPLE IN A TYPICAL THESSALIAN VILLAGE DURING THE YEARS OF GERMAN OCCUPATION AND RESISTANCE By the Jewish Refuge Ezdra L. Moisis Translated from Greek by Charalambos Vogias (Wojas) Intro by...
moreON THE LIFE AND EVERYDAY ROUTINE OF THE PEOPLE IN A TYPICAL THESSALIAN VILLAGE
DURING THE YEARS OF GERMAN OCCUPATION AND RESISTANCE
By the Jewish Refuge Ezdra L. Moisis
Translated from Greek by Charalambos Vogias (Wojas)
Intro by Translator:
The attached memoirs by the Jewish Refuge Ezdra L. Moisis were cited in in my book on Karytsa of Kissavos, of 2005 p.58. It shows the friendliness and hospitality of the villagers towards their fellow Jews during German occupation of Greece during WW II. There also was such help in other villages of the wider area and there was also in Karytsa, as well as in my mother's village Sotiritsa, where a Jewish family from Larissa was hosted by my family. The article was published during 2004 in Larissa in a book of GAK and edited by Stavros Gouloulis: "The epic of year 40 and the National Resistance in Thessaly", Larissa 2004, pp. 88-98.
Author’s first words:
“Persecuted by the Nazi Beast, I found myself with my family in Stomio (Tsage-zi), an idyllic seaside village, sloping from the roots of the Kissavos mountain to the waves of the golf of Thermaikos, next to the delta of the Pinios river. Here I lived as refugee, from November 1943 to April 1945, that is, for 18 long and continuous months, during a period that was one of the most difficult and overwhelming for every-one. For the land, the homeland that was suffering during the dark years of Nazi slav-ery, especially after the capitulation of Italy in September 1943, when the slavery had become unbearable, with the Germans indiscriminately killing and destroying every-thing.
Tragic and unimaginably difficulties, of course, were the conditions of life for the village itself, and for the region that had its share in the shocking events that were taking place, with blood sacrifices, as well as for me personally and my family, living the most critical moments of our existence, during which, at every moment, our lives and fates were at stake, hunted as we were.”