Special memorial services in the Jewish cemetery at Salonika marked the 25th anniversary of the mass deportation of the Jews of Greece by the Nazis in World War II. A representative of the Greek Prime Minister’s office and a member of the Greek Cabinet participated in the memorial along with members of the diplomatic corps, including the German Ambassador, dignitaries of the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches and representatives of Israel and of Jewish communities abroad. More than 70,000 Greek Jews perished in concentration camps and in the course of the war.
A Greek Army contingent gave military homage to the 12,500 Jews who had served in the Greek Army during the war including Col. Mordaki Frizi, a Jew, the first Greek senior officer to fall in battle.
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