The Jewish community here has directed an urgent memorandum to government officials asking that relief be extended to about 650 families, comprising about 3,000 persons, who are without homes. They were deprived of their dwellings following the Campbell riots in June, 1931. The memorandum asks that fiats be erected for the families.
The Campbell quarter, a thickly populated Jewish section in Salonica, was the object of a serious anti-Jewish attack in June, 1931. Anti-Semitic mobs, bent upon destruction, fired Jewish homes, wrecked shops and buildings.
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