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(JEWISH GROUP) Greek Holocaust victims' belongings from Nazi camp returned to their descendants
A watch, a wallet, a ring: personal effects taken from Greek prisoners at a German concentration camp were returned to their descendants on Thursday, 81 years after the Holocaust.
Kaiti Kerasiotis’s eyes filled with tears as she held in her hands the watch of her husband, Evangelos, after an emotional ceremony at the Greek foreign ministry.
He was deported in May 1944, aged just 19, to the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg. Decades later, Greek school pupils taking part in a historical memory campaign found his elderly surviving spouse.
“I can’t believe it,” she murmured, speaking to reporters, surrounded by her children and grandchildren, as she recalled the evening she was contacted by the pupils.
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