Jewish community: Holocaust remembrance is ‘sacred mission’

In the leadup to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) has said that the responsibility to pass on the memory of the Holocaust "is a sacred mission."

In a statement, the KIS noted that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Jews from the German and Bulgarian occupation zones of Greece.

From February to August 1943, the Jews of Thessaloniki, Alexandroupoli, Komotini, Xanthi, Kavala, Drama, Serres, Didymoteicho, Nea Orestiada and Soufli were loaded onto one-way trains bound for Auschwitz.

On Wednesday, the KIS leadership held a meeting with the present and former Foreign Ministry special envoys for combating antisemitism and safeguarding the memory of the Holocaust in support of this year's Holocaust remembrance campaign, entitled "We Remember."

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