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This is an audio clip of Diana Galante Golden, regarding the detailed account of how the Jews of
Rhodes were tricked, threatened and then deported by the Germans in 1944. She was 22 years old
at that time, and is a survivor of the concentration camps. (This audio sound clip was recorded
in Portland, Oregon by Aron Hasson at the Achavath Achim synagogue on February 1, 1997.)
April 1938 photo of young men in a public demonstration in the Jewish quarter of the city showing support for the Italian government.
May 1939 photos of a boat that stopped in Rhodes en route to Palestine from Prague and Braslava. It was carrying approximately 600 Eastern European Jewish refugees, but before the vessel had traveled far from Rhodes a fire broke out on board. The passengers safely reached the Island of Samos, and returned back to Rhodes. The Eastern European Jews were allowed to sleep in the stadium. In a short time, the Rhodes Jewish community managed to obtain another ship and the refugees sailed for Palestine.
1939 photo of Albert Almeleh (17 years old) at left, and Nissim (Nace) Treves (16 years old) at right, on the ship which took them to Africa. Both of them fled Rhodes shortly after the anti-Jewish laws were instituted by the Italian fascist government.
1943 photo of a young Rhodesli boy wearing the Star of David on the lapel of his coat. The Jews of Rhodes were not required to wear the Star of David, unlike the Jews of many countries of Europe, who were required to wear it as a means of discrimination. For the photo the young boy, of the Angel family, is wearing the star as an innocent gesture of pride, instead of its actual use as a symbol for persecution. Tragically, the boy was deported the following year to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Germany, where he died along with approximately 1,500 Jews of Rhodes.
April 1944 wedding photo of Yosef Levy and Dona Habif. One month later the Nazis deported them to the Auschwitz concentration camp where they died.
1946 photo of ten young Rhodesli men survivors of the Nazi concentration camps. The photo was taken in Ostia, Italy (near Rome) where the refugees lived in temporary housing. (The Rhodesli women were housed in a shelter in Rome.) Left to right: Alberto Levy, Jack Hasson, Victor Hasson, Samuel Modiano, Eliezer Sourmani, Pepo Cordoval, Jack Cordoval, Joseph Conae, Ner Alhadeff and Joseph Hasson.
1946 photo of the President of the Jewish Community laying a wreath at the fountain in "La Juderia" in memory of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
