Deportation of Jews from Thessaloniki

Date: March 15, 1943 • Location: Thessaloníki, Greece

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1943.

The deportation of 50,000 Jews from the Greek city of Thessaloniki began.

The Holocaust saw the mass murder of Greek Jews, as part of their deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp, by the Nazis during World War II. By 1945, between 82 and 92 percent of Greek Jews had been murdered, one of the highest proportions in Europe.