Angélique Kontogeorgiou was invited to the Greek embassy in Berlin to receive the watches that belonged to her grandfather, Vasilios Kontogeorgiou. He was sent to the Neuengamme concentration camp in May 1944. The German authorities arrested him in his hometown of Volos in Greece and transported him to Germany as a resistance fighter. Vasilios was forced to work in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he survived pneumonia and weighed only 38 kilograms at the time of his liberation.
Vasilios Kontogeorgiou returned to Greece after enduring Nazi terror and started a family. He passed away in 1997. His granddaughter, Angélique, described him as a joyful person who never felt hatred, despite his terrible experience with the Nazis in his youth. The round pocket watches that were taken from him in the camp were kept by the International Tracing Service of the Red Cross in Bad Arolsen. They were enclosed in a brown envelope with the prisoner number 32820.
"Our family knew nothing about these watches. It is very touching for me to hold my grandfather's personal item after so many years," said Angélique.
