Vaso Stamatiou, one of the last Greek survivors of Auschwitz, has died at the age of 98.
Stamatiou was born in Aridaia of Pella and grew up in Thessaloniki. She was arrested by the Gestapo on March 28 in 1944 in central Thessaloniki, while a first-year law student, for participating in an attempted demonstration to commemorate the March 25 Greek Revolution of 1821.
Stamatiou was one of the few Greek women who, without being Jewish, were deported to Auschwitz.
She was detained in Pavlos Melas Prison and then tranferred to a prison in Belgrade. From there in June 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz in a transport of 112 Yugoslavian and Greek women. She was registered as no. 82224. Few months later she was tranferred to other camps and finally liberated.
Stamatiou returned to Greece and took charge of the wardrobe of the Lyric Theatre. She also received a diploma in scenography from the School of Fine Arts in Athens.
Driver: “Let’s go deep into the Marina!”
Me: *laughing* “Basically as deep as you can go, yeah!”
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I went my entire collegiate soccer career without injury. I may have just pulled a hamstring kicking an aluminium foil ball around with my bosses’ cat. 🤦♀️🙀
15 May 1920 | A Polish woman, Zofia Flasza, was born in Czeladź. A dressmaker.
In #Auschwitz from 17 June 1942.
No. 7626
She perished in the camp on 25 July 1942.