Greek Jews reburied a World War II army hero after a 50-year campaign by his family to have his remains returned from Albania. More than half of Salonika’s 1,100-member Jewish community attended the Oct. 24 funeral for Col. Mordechai Frizis, who died in December 1940 while fighting Italian troops in southern Albania.
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