ABSTRACT
In 1943, in the space of a few months, the overwhelming majority of the members of the historic Jewish community of Thessaloniki were transported from their homes, in cattle cars, to be exterminated at the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. Thessaloniki, a major port in the Balkans, and Greece’s second largest city, has the sad privilege of having lost one of the largest percentages of Jewish population during the Second World War compared to other parts of Europe. Almost 95% of the city’s 50,000 Jews did not survive the war, most of them deported and exterminated in Nazi-occupied Poland.
