Heinz Cunho
Greek Jews remember transport to Nazi death camps
THESSALONIKI - Residents of Greeces second-largest city on Sunday placed flowers on train tracks and inside old cattle wagons in solemn remembrance of nearly 50,000 local Jews who were transported to Nazi death camps during World War II.
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Thessaloniki Jews remember the Nazi train of shame (photos)
A crowd of 2,000 people gathered at Freedom Square, Thessaloniki, to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the deportation of 56,000 Greek Sephardic Jews. They solemnly marched from the square to the city's old railway station where the first of 18 trains departed for the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex on March 15, 1943.