German president visits site of Thessaloniki Holocaust museum

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has visited the site of Holocaust museum being built in Thessaloniki as he began a three-day state visit.

Steinmeier visited the site near an old railway station in the northern city, from where tens of thousands of Jews were transported to Nazi concentration camps during the World War II German occupation.

More than 90% of the once-flourishing Jewish community died in the camps.

"What was done to the Jewish people here remains an enduring memory - a mark that cannot be erased. And today, we stand at the very place where this horror unfolded, here at the old railway station," Steinmeier said after a ceremony in which he met Jewish community leaders and relatives of Holocaust survivors.

He was accompanied by President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, who earlier this month visited the site of the Auschwitz Nazi...