The following are interviewed in the film Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust by Claude Lanzmann (1985).

Armndo Aaron — President of the Jewish community of Corfu. "On Friday morning, June 9, 1944, members of the Corfu Jewish community came, very frightened, and reported to the Germans. This square was full of Gestapo men and police, and we went forward. There were even traitors, the Recanati brothers, Athens Jews. After the war they were sentenced to life imprisonment. But they’re already free. We were ordered to go forward. . . . 1650 people. . . . Christians stopped there. . . at the street corner. . . and on the balconies. . .to see the show. [We were] very, very scared when we saw. . . There were young people, sick people, little children, the old, the crazy, and so on. When we saw they’d even brought the insane, even the sick from the hospital, we were frightened for the survival of the whole community. We were to appear at the fort to be taken to work in. . . Poland.

The Germans had put up a proclamation on all the walls in Corfu. It said all Jews had to report. And now that we were all rounded up, life would be better without us in Greece. It was signed by the police chiefs, by officials and by the mayors. . . [Antisemitism] exited, sure, but it wasn’t strong in the years just before that. They didn’t think like that against the Jews. [Now] our relations with the Christians are very good. . . .

[After the Jews left] they took all our possessions, all the gold we had with us. They took the keys to our houses and stole everything. By law it was to go to the Greek government. But the state got only a small part of it. The rest was stolen, usurped. . . by everyone, and by the Germans. Of the 1700 people deported, around 122 were saved. Ninety-five percent of the them died. . . We were arrested here on June 9, and we finally arrived June 29. Most were burned on the night of the twenty-ninth. We stayed here in the fort for around five days. No one dared escape and leave his father, mother, brothers. Our solidarity was on religious and family grounds. . . [We were taken on] a boat made of barrels and planks. It was towed by a small boat with Germans in it. On our boat there were one, two or three guards, not many Germans, but we were terrified. You can understand, terror is the best of guards. . . "