Today marks the date 78-years ago when Germany began exterminating Greek Jews

• Date: 15 March 2021
• Author: Dan Verbin
• Published date: 15 March 2021

On March 15, the first 2,800 men, women and children from Greece were transported to the extermination camp where they were murdered in gas chambers.

During WW II Greece was conquered and occupied by Nazi Germany. Nearly 13,000 Greek Jews fought in the Greek Army. Early on in the war, they were able to keep the Italian army at bay but later fell to the overwhelming military strength of the German army. The Nazis had been collecting information on Salonica's prosperous Jewish community since 1937, enabling the Nazis to murder 60 to 70,000 Greek Jews, nearly 80 percent of the country's Jewish...