German government, pay for Hitler’s Holocaust, Greek Jews say

This video from the USA says about itself:

Greek Jews in the Holocaust: Families of Holocaust Survivors Share Their Little Known Story

15 May 2013

By Video Journalist Stephanie Stern

The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County hosts a Holocaust Remembrance Day and they tell the little known story of how almost 90% of Greek Jews perished in the Holocaust.

Featured Interviews: Steven Markowitz, Chairman, Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center; Arye Mekel, Israeli Ambassador to Greece; Jane Elias, Daughter of Holocaust Survivors; Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos, Director, Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum.

From daily The Morning Star in Britain:

Greek Jews put WWII claims to Germany

Monday 23rd March 2015

LEADERS in Greece’s largest Jewish community will reclaim money extorted during World War II, they announced at the weekend.

“We will study the law and do our best to claim,” said Thessaloniki community president David Saltiel.

When the Nazis were deporting Greece’s Jews to death camps in Poland in 1943, Hitler’s genocidal accountants made a chilling reservation — the Jews had to pay their own train fare.

The bill for 58,585 Jews’ transport to Auschwitz and other camps exceeded 2 million Reichsmarks — more than €25 million (£18m) in today’s money.

Greece’s Syriza government has made war reparations a central part of bailout negotiations with Germany.

But Berlin has dismissed such demands, saying that compensation issues were settled decades ago.

How Salonika became disfigured by anti-semitism. KEVIN OVENDEN charts how the birthplace of the Greek working-class and socialist movement has come to be riven by the far right and rabid nationalist forces: here.

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