Episode 9 — Elias Recanati

Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust by Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Mar 11, 202100:25:15Education

When the Germans took control of the Greek city of Salonika, Elias Racanati's family had one chance to escape—his mother's family hailed from Spain. But they had to cross German-occupied Europe to get there.

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