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Esther Yaron speaks at the old train station in Thessaloniki, Greece, at an event marking 80 years since the deportation of the city’s Jews, March 19, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

From Macedonia to Pardes Hanna

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It was 1943 in German-occupied Greece. The little girl with the curly blonde hair at the church on the outskirts of Athens was at the center of the Nazis’ attention. Reminded of their children back...

Thessaloniki holds march to commemorate 50,000 Jews sent to the concentration camps

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It was 75 years ago this week when the Nazi forces occupying Greece perpetrated a horrible crime: the deportation of 46,000 Jews from Thessaloniki. The Macedonian capital, Greece’s second largest city, had been the...

In Greece, a city struggles to come to terms with its Jewish past

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Walking through the bustling center of Thessaloniki, Greece, Hella Kounio Matalon points off to the distance. “Most of the properties that we see on this road are former Jewish properties,” she said as she walked...