Thessaloniki Jews commemorate transport to Nazi death camps
Residents of this northern Greek city on Sunday marked the 72nd anniversary of the roundup and deportation of its Jews to Nazi extermination camps during World War II.
About 2,000 people gathered at Thessaloniki's Freedom Square and held a moment of silence, then marched to the city's old railway station, where the first trains departed for the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex. A short ceremony was held at the station and flowers laid on the tracks. A locomotive and four carriages in which people spent nine days, locked, on their way to the extermination camps, were at the station. Of the over 46,000 Jews sent to the camps, fewer than 2,000 survived.
