“Ladies and Gentlemen,On 27 January 1945, the gates of Auschwitz closed forever. For those who, beyond hope, survived, this was the end of a march of death through the most painful pages of European history. For humanity it was the realization of the end of an era in which time stopped before the horrors of mankind.Before the Second World War, over 79,000 Jews lived in Greece. After the war and the Holocaust, almost 90% of the Greek Jews had been exterminated. The highest price was paid by the community of Thessaloniki, the country’s largest Jewish community, the onetime Jerusalem of...
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