The 25th anniversary of the mass deportation of Greek Jewry by the Nazis in 1943 will be marked by special memorial services to be held at the Jewish cemetery in Salonika on April 25, It was announced today by the Central Council of Jewish Communities of Greece. The memorial will be organized by the Central Council and by the Jewish Community of Salonika, the Greek city which had the largest Jewish population prior to World War II.
According to the Central Council there were more than 77,000 Jews in Greece at the time of the Nazi invasion, 56,000 of them in Salonika. Of that number, 95 percent perished at Auschwitz, Birkenau and other concentration camps. Today’s Jewish community in Greece numbers about 5,000 of whom 3,000 live in Athens, 1,000 In Salonika and another thousand in smaller cities and towns.
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