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April 16, 2008
Deportation, Ioannina, 1943.
A
friend pointed me to this small collection of photographs of the deportation by the Nazis of the Jews of Ioaninna, Greece, on March 25, 1943, to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
I have seen many moving photos of the deportation of Jews, including photos of the deportation from Würzburg of a group that included my great-uncle Leopold and his wife Irene in April of 1942.
But I don't think I've ever seen one as wrenching as this:
And this one is pretty tough too -- especially the child on the right.
It looks as though these photos captured the moment when the men were driven away.
Posted by Eric at April 16, 2008 2:34 PM