Os nazis deportavam Judeus na Grecia agora sao os Judeus que deportam mPalestianos para fora da terra onde bnasceram ( ver traduçao

Thousands march in Greek city to mark Jewish WWII deportations


Greek city Thessaloniki commemorates 70 years
since the first deportation of Jews when German occupying forces invaded
Greece; march also aims to send a message to Golden Dawn, Greece's
neo-Nazi party.





By
Anshel Pfeffer


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Mar.16, 2013 | 10:44 PM






















Concentration camp survivors attending a march in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Photo by AP



The city of Thessaloniki commemorated 70 years since the first
deportation of Jews to German extermination camps in 1943 on Saturday.
The march from the city's Liberty Square to the old railway yards, the
first event of its kind in seven decades, took place in wake of the rise
of the Neo-Nazi party GoldenDawn.


The Jews of Salonika were a large and prosperous community throughout
much of its 2,000-year existence, and for much of its history were a
majority in the port town and integral to its economic development. On
the eve of World War II, about 53,000 Jews lived there, 90 percent of
who would be murdered in the death camps, mainly in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Around 1,500 Jews currently live in Thessaloniki.


Saturday's march was the initiative of the local city council along
with the Jewish community and was supported by the World Jewish Congress
which, in a show of solidarity with the Jews in Greece, is starting
annual meeting of its executive committee in Thessaloniki before moving
on to Jerusalem.


About 3,000 people participated in the march, most of them non-Jewish.
It was the opening of two days of events commemorating the deportation,
and according to city residents is the first time that large-scale
memorial events were held honoring the city's murdered Jews.


Yiannis Boutaris, the mayor of Thessaloniki who lead the march, said
that "all of us today, Jews, Christians, agnostics and atheists, are
fulfilling our duty to remember all of our brothers who built this city
and tell the Nazis that Jews and Christians all share the same fate." He
made it clear that by Nazis, he was referring also to Golden Dawn, which in the Greek elections last June received seven percent of the vote.


Along the route of the march, Golden Dawn graffiti was highly visible
though none of the movement's members tried to disrupt the event. Many
of the Greek citizens on the march wore orange stickers with a swastika
crossed out and the slogan "Sigamifovitho" ("why should we be afraid"),
which has become the rallying call of Greeks opposed to Golden Dawn and
the rising popularity of fascist and xenophobic ideology in the country,
which is going through economic and social turmoil.


The president of the Jewish community, David Saltiel, said at the march that "along
with the Nazis were collaborators, those who helped them in their
deeds, and the biggest collaborators, those civilized people who
cooperated with their silence. We are here to remind the supporters of
fascism and Nazism that we will not allow them to repeat their crimes
against humanity