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In 1944 there were close to 2,000 Jews living on the island,50 of whom, as Turkish citizens, fell under the protection ofthe Turkish consulate. The rest were deported on July 20,1944.The timing of the deportation is especially painful since, lessthan three months later, the Germans were forced to leaveGreece. Deportations from Rhodes were the last conductedby the Germans in Greece.On July 20, 1944, the Jews of Rhodes and the neighboringisland of Kos were sent by boat to the Greek mainland.Crammed together in the hot summer sun, without food orwater, 23 Jews died on the voyage to the mainland. Thosewho survived were incarcerated in the SS-operated transitcamp Haidary and thendeported by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only 151 Jews fromRhodes survived the Holocaust.Yehuda Levy and his family in 1928.Yehuda and his wife, Miriam Notrica,died at Auschwitz- Birkenau in August1944.Stella Levy and Aron Hasson, RhodesYodef Levy and DonaHabif, April 1944. Bothdied at Auschwitz-Birkenau.Aron Hasson, RhodesHistorical SocietyU n i t e d S t a t e s H o l o c a u s t M e m o r i a l M u s e u m16
ThessalonikicorfuKastoriaioanninavolosThe Holocaust inZakynthosAthensRhodesZZAKYNTHOSAlthough the Jews of Zakynthos share a similar history with the Jewsof the Ionian islands, all 275 Zakynthos Jews survived the Holocaust.The courageous actions of Bishop Chrysostomos and Mayor LoukasKarrer in helping save Zakynthos Jews led Yad Vashem to recognizethem as “Righteous Among the Nations.”In 1944 Mayor Loukas Karrer wasordered at gunpoint to hand over a listof Jews residing on the island. The list,presented to the Germans by BishopChrysostomos, contained only two names:Mayor Karrer and Bishop Chrysostomos.The bishop bravely told the Germans,“Here are your Jews. If you choose todeport the Jews of Zakynthos, you mustalso take me, and I will share their fate.”Mayor Loukas KarrerJewish Museum of GreeceU n i t e d S t a t e s H o l o c a u s t M e m o r i a l M u s e u m 17
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