Members of the Amarillo family pose outside their home in
Salonika. Front, from left to right, are Tillie Amarillo and
Sarika Yahiel. Seated behind them are their mothers Louisa
Bourla Amarillo and Regina Amarillo Yahiel. Standing are Saul
Amarillo, Isaccino Yahiel, and Isaac Yahiel. Salonika, Greece,
between 1930 and 1939. US Holocaust Memorial Museum On October
28, 1940, Fascist Italy invaded Greece from bases in Albania,
which Italy had occupied and annexed in April 1939. Within a
matter of days, however, the Greek army drove the Italians back
into the Albanian mountains, where the conflict reached a
stalemate. In order to secure the Balkan flank in anticipation
of the attack on the Soviet Union, planned for June 22, 1941,
Hitler ordered the invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece. On April
6, 1941, the Germans and Italians, supported by Bulgarian and
Hungarian units, attacked. The Yugoslav government fled to
London and the leadership of the armed forces surrendered on
April 17. By April 28, Axis troops had paci