Necropolis

In Thessaloniki, where in 1870 Jews numbered 50,000 out of the total population of 90,000, today in 2008 there are 1,000 Jews out of a total population of 364,000. The Nazis killed 96 percent of Thessaloniki's Jews--almost 60,000. Most of the synagogues were destroyed. The Nazis also destroyed the Jewish cemetery which held the bones of 500,000 dating back to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, and donated the grounds to their Greek collaborators. On the ruins of this cemetery Aristotle University was built.

This necropolis in southern Europe recalls the necropolis in eastern Europe that is now Poland.