1943March–August 1943 · Thessaloniki

Destruction of Jewish Thessaloniki

The Monastir Synagogue in Thessaloniki, a surviving place of the city's Jewish community — Photo: NYC2TLV. CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Thessaloniki had been a mainly Sephardic Jewish city since exiles from Spain arrived after 1492, and Jews long formed its largest community. Under German occupation, about 45,000 were deported by train from the Baron Hirsch quarter to Auschwitz in 1943, and almost all were killed. The old Jewish cemetery had already been destroyed and its gravestones used for building.

Holocaust & Remembrance
Jewish Heritage
Thessaloniki, Greece

Sites

Site 1: Jewish Museum of ThessalonikiGravestones from the destroyed cemetery and the community's history.Map ↗
Site 2: Eleftherias SquareSquare where Jewish men were registered and humiliated in July 1942.Map ↗