The Shoah Memorial organized, from 30 October to 2 November 2016, an exceptional trip to Thessaloniki, the "Jerusalem of the Balkans".
During
Here are two videos and a few photos from this
The station from which the convoys to Auschwitz-Birkenau left
The monument in memory of the persecuted and deported Jewish Salonians (Place de la Liberté)
The synagogue of the Monastiriotes
Meeting with Heinz Kounio, a survivor of Auschwitz, and Larry Sefiha, vice-president of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki
Yad Lazikaron Synagogue
Meeting with Philippe Ray, Consul General of France in Thessaloniki at the French cemetery of Zeitenlick (cemetery of soldiers of the Armée d'Orient during the 1st World War)
