Solomon Chinocos Cohen, born in Salonica (Thessaloniki), Greece, in 1917, describes his family; the fates of his immediate family members; attending Lycee Francais and graduating in 1938; going to Skadar (possibly Shkodër, Albania) in 1938 for two years; joining the army and fighting the Italians from October 1940 to April 1941; being taken in July 1942 as a forced laborer; how the family was taken to a ghetto, Rumlaulji; how they planned to escape either to Athens, Greece, or to the mountains; how a Greek partisan named Calidopolus, son of a general, helped them get to the mountains; how his family was not politically motivated to join the underground but did so to save themselves; making contact with the National Liberation Front (EAM) partisans in 1943; how the family was led to Mount Paiku; being assigned to a battalion under Captain Mavros as a supply sergeant because he had been a sergeant when he fought the Italians; battles against the Germans, which took place until liberation; life in the partisan unit; his brother’s activities with the partisans and the British; his life after the war; and his marriage to a woman who converted to Judaism.

Entrevistado: Solomon Cohen
Entrevistador: Peter Ryan
Fecha de entrevista: 1996 junio 19
Geografía de creación: Salónica (Grecia)
Línea de crédito: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation