[MGSA-L] Fwd: Lost Jewish tombstones found in Greece

June Samaras june.samaras at gmail.com
Thu Dec 27 19:28:44 PST 2012


http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4322701,00.html

Lost Jewish tombstones found in Greece

Fragments from Jewish graves destroyed during WWII Nazi occupation
recovered in Thessaloniki
Associated Press

Published:      12.25.12, 07:20 / Israel Jewish Scene

In a find that local Jewish groups have described as highly
significant, Greek police said last week that hundreds of marble
headstones and other fragments from Jewish graves destroyed during the
Nazi occupation in World War II have been recovered.

The 668 fragments were found buried in a plot of land in Thessaloniki,
Greece's second largest city, following a 70-year search for the
remains of graves smashed when the city's main Jewish cemetery was
destroyed.

The head of the city's Jewish community, David Saltiel, said most of
the gravestones found dated from the mid-1800s up until World War II.
"This is our history," Saltiel, head of the Central Board of Jewish
Communities in Greece, told The Associated Press.
"Apart from the names, the (gravestones) also include the person's
occupation. So this is a historic record."

An estimated 60,000 Greek Jews, most of the country's prewar Jewish
population, were killed in the Holocaust

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June Samaras
2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
E-mail : june.samaras at gmail.com


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