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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Ceremony Honors Greeks Who Saved Jews In WWII

A woman weeps during the deportation of the Jews of Ioannina on March 25, 1944. The deportation was enforced by the German army. Almost all of the people deported were murdered on or shortly after April 11, 1944 when their train reached the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Many others were saved by Greeks. ATHENS - During the Axis occupation of mainland Greece from 1941 to 1944, and the ...

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