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Greece Says Holocaust Museum Will Help 'Redress' Injustices

Nazi officer tries to humiliate Greek Jews, Thessaloniki, 1942

Greece on Saturday said a planned Holocaust museum in Thessaloniki, scene of thousands of Nazi deportations during WWII, would be part of efforts to “redress historical injustices against the Greek Jewish community”.
In a statement to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said:
“The Greek state will never forget the heinous crimes perpetrated against the Greek Jews. Greece unequivocally condemns all forms of anti-Semitism and has undertaken systematic efforts to combat intolerance and racism.”
Seventy-three years ago, the Auschwitz death camp in Poland was liberated by soldiers of the Red Army. Millions of Jews, Roma and other people were murdered by the Nazi regime across Europe during WWII.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin visited Thessaloniki earlier this month, and visited the site of the planned museum.
However, anti-Semitism raised its head in the northern city this month when a monument which commemorates the 54,000 Jewish residents of the city who were deported by the Nazis, was attacked.
The words “Golden Dawn” — the name of a Greek far-right party — were daubed on the base of the sculpture.
Over 90 percent of deportees from Thessaloniki were eventually killed.

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