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Haidari was a prisoner of war camp located in military barracks near Athens, Greece, that was used for the internment of non-Jewish civilians, Greek Jews, and foreign Jews. The foreign Jews were segregated from the rest of the prisoner population. The camp commander was Sturmbannführer Paul Radomski. Radomski was replaced by an Austrian officer, Lieutenant Fischer, early in 1944. Between April 2, 1944 and August 19, 1944, prisoners were sent to extermination camps. One of the first transports from Haidari, departing on April 2, 1944, took approximately 800 prisoners to Auschwitz. After arriving on April 11, 433 prisoners were selected for forced labor, with only 40 surviving the war. From another Haidari transport of between 700 to 1,000 prisoners arriving at Auschwitz in the second week of April 1944, Dr. Josef Mengele selected 320 men and 328 women for so-called "medical research". The remaining prisoners were immediately gassed. The camp was evacuated on September 24, 1944 and liberated on October 14, 1944. It is estimated that as many as 2,000 prisoners, including twenty-five women, were executed as hostages at Haidari. Major Radomski personally executed some of the hostages to terrorize inmates. On May 1, 1944, two hundred prisoners were taken from Haidari and shot at the Kaisariani firing range nearby. Other Haidari prisoners were placed in cages in front of railroad locomotives as human shields to prevent acts of sabotage. Haidari also served as a gathering place and transit camp for non-Jewish Greek civilians being sent to Germany for forced labor. (en-US)

Fonte

Sephardic House, Inc. "Sephardic House: Institute for Researching and Promoting Sephardic History Culture." www.sephardichouse.org (July 25, 2001).

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• Stereá Ellás (Grecia : Division)