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Nissim Attas

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Nissim Attas
son of Iakov
born in: Ioannina,Greece
Military Service: Greece
Infantry
Unit: 15th Infantry Regiment
Passed away in Auschwitz-Birkenau

wounds: He was an amputee due to injuries incurred in battle in the Greek-Italian War

Biography

Nissim ben Iakov Attas [Politis], 28 years old, a private who was severely wounded in the Greek-Italian War. In spite of the fact that
he was an amputee due to injuries incurred in battle, he was also arrested by the Germans, along with other Jews from Ioannina on that fateful day, March 25, 1944, and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau from where he never returned.