The last link to a doomed Jewish community in Crete watches its rebirth with gratitude Kostas Papadopoulos was two years old and in hiding when the Nazis rounded up 263 of the island's Jews.
App launched to commemorate lost Jewish community of Crete Jewish history on Crete dates back more than 2,300 years, but the community was destroyed during the Holocaust.
Attack on Crete synagogue carries special meaning The bar of soap hurled by attackers against a synagogue they desecrated in Crete was a diabolically mixed metaphor: Soap usually symbolizes purity and godliness, but in this twisted context it spelled hatred and death.
