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BETWEEN ABSENCE AND AFFIRMATION

The 23rd workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Extermination Sites
took place in Thessaloniki. Before the Second World War Thessaloniki was home to the largest
Jewish community in Greece  more than 50.000 Jewish inhabitants in 1941  at the time of the
German occupation. In February 1943 German authorities concentrated local Jews in ghettos.
Between March and August more than 45.000 of them were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau  most of
whom were gassed on arrival. From the pre-war Jewish community less than 2.000 survived the
Holocaust. Despite the significant impact this played in the history of this part of Greece  it
was mostly forgotten and hardly represented  both in Greece itself as well as in international
studies.  The absence of memorialization and the tremendous loss of the Jewish community  as
well as the recent interest in commemoration  which serves as affirmation for the identity of
the Jewish inhabitants of Thessaloniki  connect the location to the topic of the workshop. The
papers published in this volume look at this gap in Holocaust history both with an emphasis on
Greece as well as further blanks in current research.

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