For the first time, Christina Christdoulou, PhD candidate and Adjunct Professor in Psychology at Montclair State University, tells the astonishing story of Christopher Christodoulou.

It is April 1940, and World War Two rages across Europe. Germany invades Greece. Immediately, Jews are rounded up and sent to death camps. As a young priest in Athens, twenty-year-old Christopher Christodoulou works in secret with members of his priesthood to help save the lives of Jews. Until he himself is caught by the vicious SS Captain Bach, and sent to a concentration camp to die alongside the Jewish people he fought to save.

Some five miles from Athens on the road to Eleusis, an old artillery barracks built to house 2,000 soldiers became the dreadful Haidari Concentration Camp. Taken over by Germans, it is a prison for as many as 6,000 Greek inmates whom the Nazis deem to be “criminals,” including Christopher. Inmates sleep on a handful of straw, and survive on a cup of gruel if they were fed at all. Every day, they dig holes in the dirt that might be their own graves–if they are saved, they get to fill the hole in, only to do it again the next day. All under the watch of hundreds of Nazi guards, ready to kill them.

On a work detail beyond the barbed wire of the camp, Christopher, starved thin and delirious with fear, is struck on the head and left for dead.

But Christopher would live. It is a miracle and a sign from God that Christopher has to continue his mission and save even more lives, even if it means his death.

Coming Soon.