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Collection of testimonies and a detailed report on the destruction of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki during the Holocaust. Thessaloniki - 1948-1953 - First Edition

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In Memoriam Hommage aux victimes juives des Nazis en Grèce - In Memory of the Jewish Victims of the Nazis in Greece, by Rabbi Michael Molcho, Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki - First edition - three volumes 1948-1953 - one of the first publications on the rise and destruction of the Jewish community in Salonika after the Holocaust. The first and second volumes published in 1948 and 1949 were printed in Salonika itself. The third volume was published in 1953 in Buenos Aires. French.

A file of testimonies about the persecution and extermination of Greek Jewry. An important publication edited by the Rabbi of Thessaloniki Michael Molcho with the participation of eyewitnesses, hundreds of reports, researchers, historians, early reports, and more, through which he managed to present a detailed picture of the Nazi crimes in Greece during World War II. The first volume, published in 1948, was dedicated to the extermination of the Jewish communities in Salonika and northern Greece, the second volume was dedicated to the persecution of the Jews in "mainland" Greece - in this section is an extensive chapter dealing with the restitution of Jewish property after the war. The third volume, which was published in Buenos Aires, is dedicated to the Jewish cemetery in Salonika, where hundreds of versions of Jewish gravestones in Salonika are presented, including gravestones of Jews who perished during World War II. The report is accompanied by many photographs from Thessaloniki - members of the community during the war, the many tombstones in the Jewish cemetery (especially in the third part), historical documents and more.

Vol. 1: 146 p. (Some pages were not cut in print.) Stains on the cover.
Vol. 2: 211 p. (Some pages were not cut in print.) Light stains on the cover.
Vol. 3: 94 [1] p. Loose cover. Tears on the spine. Stains on the cover.

Overall Condition Good.

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138. Collection of testimonies and a detailed report on the destruction of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki during the Holocaust. Thessaloniki - 1948-1953 - First Edition