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Friday, March 4, 2022

The Battle of Karalaka: How 242 German SS Soldiers Were Killed While Five Greek-Jewish Families Were Liberated

By Dr. Michael Matsas* Among our Allies, finally, only a partisan battalion commander decided, on May 6, 1944, that Jewish lives mattered. My cousin Joseph Matsas who fought in this battle with Lieutenant Marko Carassso1 and other Jewish partisans, told me this story: The greatest partisan victory of the Second World War took place in […] The post The Battle of Karalaka: How 242 German SS Soldiers Were Killed While Five Greek-Jewish Families Were Liberated appeared first on Hellenic News of America.


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