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Inside Europe: Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki

February 16, 2018

Work has commenced on a Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city. For more than 400 years, Thessaloniki had a thriving Jewish population, which shaped its identity and culture. Prior to World War Two, Jews made up a quarter of the city’s population. But during the Holocaust, 97 percent of the community died in Nazi concentration camps. Alexia Kalaitzi reports..

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Alexia Kalaitzi Multimedia reporter with a focus on social, political and environmental topics