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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Jews in Greece mark WWII Nazi deportation

Survivors of the concentration camps, from left Moshe Haelion, Abraham Ashkenazi, Zana Santicario Saatsoglou, President of Thessalonikis Jewish community David Saltiel, and Israel Ambassador Arye Mekel hold a banner that reads in Hebrew :"The organization of death camps survivors from Greece in Israel" in the northern port city , of Thessaloniki, Greece, on Saturday, March 16, 2013. Jewish residents in this northern Greek city have gathered to commemorate the 70th anniversary from the first roundup and deportation of Jews to Nazi extermination camps in World War II. By August 1943, 46,091 Jews had been deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Of those, 1,950 survived. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Jewish residents of this northern Greek city on Saturday marked the 70th anniversary of the roundup and deportation of its Jews to Nazi extermination camps during World War II.



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