German consul Hoelscher-Obermaier places tributes at the Holocaust Memorial Monument. Ceremony in memory of the persecution of the Jewish people during World War II, in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Sunday, January 27, 2013. There were some 50,000 Jews living in Thessaloniki at the start of World War II, and almost 45,000 of them perished at Auschwitz concentration camp, and Greece officially commemorates the Holocaust every January 27.

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German consul Hoelscher-Obermaier places tributes at the Holocaust Memorial Monument. Ceremony in memory of the persecution of the Jewish people during World War II, in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Sunday, January 27, 2013. There were some 50,000 Jews living in Thessaloniki at the start of World War II, and almost 45,000 of them perished at Auschwitz concentration camp, and Greece officially commemorates the Holocaust every January Τελετή στη μνήμη του διωγμού των Εβραίων κατά τη διάρκεια του Β' Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου, στη Θεσσαλονίκη, Κυριακή 27 Ιανουαρίου 2013. Υπήρχαν περίπου Εβραίοι που ζούσαν στη Θεσσαλονίκη κατά την έναρξη του Β' Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου, και περίπου από αυτούς έχασαν τη ζωή τους στο στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης του Άουσβιτς, η Ελλάδα τιμά επίσημα το Ολοκαύτωμα κάθε 27 Ιανουαρίου.

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