Death of Ioannina’s last Holocaust survivor

The death has been announced of Zanet Nachmia, the last Holocaust survivor from the northwestern city of Ioannina.

She died on Monday aged 99, shortly before her 100th birthday, the Jewish Museum of Greece said.

Nachmia was born in Ioannina in 1925, one of the six children of Haim Nachmias, who ran a taverna, and his wife Revekka (née Mordechai), and grew up within the walled Kastro, opposite the synagogue.

She attended primary school at the Alliance Israélite Universelle until the fifth grade, when she left to help her mother with the chores of their large household.

On March 25, 1944, the entire Jewish community of Ioannina, including Nachmia and her family, was rounded up and deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Of the 1,960 people deported, 1,850 were murdered in the camps. 

Nachmia also passed through other camps, including...