The oldest Greek woman to have survived the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps died on Tuesday, December 1, 2020. The From Giannitsa Esther Cohen It was his vivid testimony Holocaust, carrying vivid memories of what she had experienced deep in her soul and her prisoner number tattooed on her left hand.
According to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA), Esther Cohen, along with all the Romanian Jews of Ioannina, experienced this atrocity when she was just 17 years old. It was March 25, 1944, when the Germans gathered at the Mavili Square all the Jews of city and then came the descent into ruin and death. Her stories were always harrowing. She saw her parents and her six siblings for the last time at the gates of hell Auschwitz.
In March 2014, Ms. Cohen made headlines when she met with the former German president in Ioannina Joachim Gauck. «When we die, the world must learn that people should not be inhumane,» said Esther Cohen, and the German president embraced her. Her funeral will be held on Thursday, December 3.
