KALAMATA, Greece — At the end of a long stretch of sandy beach, a weathered warehouse in the Greek port of Kalamata held the survivors of one of the worst shipwrecks in Europe in a decade.
Inside, dazed men from Syria, Egypt and Pakistan, all with numbered badges around their necks, languished on tightly packed corridors of thin mattresses. Outside, relatives who had flown in from around Europe pressed authorities for information. They then found a crack on the side of the building between an aluminum shutter and a concrete wall, peered through and consoled the loved ones they could see and inquired about the fates of all those they could not.