Greece: Suddenly in the heart of Salonika - Jewish gravestones were discovered
in an open area in the city center of Salonika, hundreds of tombstones and fragments of Jewish graves tombstones were discovered • the gravestones were robbed from the largest Jewish cemetery
- Yonah Shub, B'Chadrei Charedim
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More than 600 marble gravestones and other parts belonging to the Jewish graves were discovered yesterday (Thursday) in an open area in the heart of Salonika in northern Greece.
The headstones were smashed and robbed from the largest Jewish cemetery in Salonika during the Nazi occupation during World War II.
Community leader, David Shaltiel, said that most of the stones are ancient and belonging to the deceased from the middle of the 19th century to the period of the Nazi occupation.
Salonika Jewry was the largest community of Jewish Communities in Greece.
In the second half of the 19th century, Jews constituted more than half of the city residents, and the community was considered one of the most important in the Balkans.
The Nazis entered the city on April 9, 1941, and in January 1943 began the deportation of Greek Jews, numbering about 60 thousand people, to the concentration camps.
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