Juden in Thessaloniki : die alte sephardische Metropole im kurzen geschichtlichen Überblick unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Schoah 1941-1944

Pp. 11-22 survey the history of Jews in Salonika from the ancient period to the 20th century. Pp. 23-39 discuss the Nazi period. Between April 1941-October 1944 Salonika was occupied by the German army. Anti-Jewish measures against the 49,000 local Jews began with arrests of Jewish notables, confiscation of apartments and the Jewish hospital, and the closing of the three Jewish newspapers. In April-May 1941, the Einsatzstab Rosenberg confiscated art and literary treasures from private and public libraries and synagogues. From July 1942, 9,000 Jewish men were taken for forced labor. The arrival of Dieter Wisliceny and Alois Brunner in February 1943 marked the start of the systematic annihilation; 45,620 Jews were deported in 18 transports to Auschwitz. Includes excerpts from the memoirs of Erika Kounio-Amariglio, whose family survived Auschwitz. 1. Aufl. 66 pages ; 21 cm