By Sakis Ioannidis
A few kilometers before Lamia, the train had stopped again, near a wilderness, where my soul was tested by the terrible scene of a dental hell. This much-used expression is not a figure of speech. Down there in the little ravine, in front of the stopped train, the last act of an episode from the great Florentine's hell was being played. A few shacks were set up where a few months ago perhaps a "work battalion" of suffering Jews was housed. Now there were a few living scraps left that looked like they had once been human. Skeletal bodies with traces of rags on them, barely swaying from helplessness. And the faces, devoid of humanity, resembled the forms of wounded animals expiring. They tried to walk and staggered, tripped over the stones, and then their guard, a Jewish outlaw, would run and bring his German whip down on the ragged body."
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