The Holocaust in Greece was the mass murder of Greek Jews, mostly as a result of their deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp, during World War II. By 1945, between 82 and 92 percent of Greek Jews had been murdered, one of the highest proportions in Europe.
A young woman weeps during the deportation of the Romaniote Jews of Ioannina on 25 March 1944. Almost all were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
"Jews undesirable" placard in Salonica, 1941
Roundup of 9,000 Jews in Salonica, 11 July 1942
Deportations of Jews from Greece.1943-1944. Anastasios Karababas, In the Footsteps of the Jews of Greece (Prologue by Yiannis Boutaris), Vallentine Mitchell, London/Chicago, 2024, p.15
Eleftherias Square is a central square in downtown Thessaloniki, Greece. It takes its name from the Young Turk Revolution, which began in the square in 1908. The square is currently a car park, but a public competition was launched by the Municipality of Thessaloniki in 2013 to select a design for its redevelopment into a park. Construction was initially expected to start in 2018 at a cost of €5.1 million.
Eleftherias Square on the waterfront
The State Conservatory (former Ottoman Bank) near the square.
Registration of the Jews by the Nazis in the square, July 1942.
Menorah in flames, the Holocaust memorial which was later moved to the square.
