98-year-old Holocaust survivor is first to receive vaccine in Greek city

• Author: ABIGAIL ADLER
• Published date: 07 January 2021
• Date: 07 January 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The city's vaccine campaign only began on Tuesday, and medical staff began to implement vaccinations at Santicario-Satsuglou's Jewish nursing home in Thessaloniki, named after Shaul Modiano, Ynet reported.

Santicario-Satsuglou chose to live in the Jewish nursing home in Thessaloniki more than 10 years ago, after her husband's death. The city was once filled with extensive Jewish influence in all areas of life.

When she was only 18 in 1943, like most Greek Jews, she was deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz, according to the report on Ynet. Her parents and brother were murdered there, but she managed to survive the concentration camp.

The nursing home reported that the nine seniors in the Jewish nursing home who have been vaccinated are doing well, and are currently waiting for the second dose of the...