King Juan Carlos of Spain met with Jewish communal leaders in the Greek port city of Salonika, where he visited a memorial in a Jewish cemetery to the Greek Jews who perished under the Nazis At the memorial, the king reiterated an apology made several years ago for his country’s expulsion of Jews in 1492. The president of the city’s Jewish community presented the king with a golden key, telling him, “These are the keys of our homes we left behind when leaving Spain.” Juan Carlos was the first foreign dignitary ever to meet with Salonika’s Jewish community.
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