From Athens, take the A1 motorway to Thessaloniki, a distance of 501 kilometres. The memorial plaque is on the old railway station (now goods depot) in Stathmos Street, near the western approach to the city.
The memorial plaque hangs on the façade of the old railway station (now goods depot) in Stathmos Street.
Between 15 March and 2 August 1943, the Jewish residents of Thessloniki were loaded into cattle cars and taken to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. More than 50.000 people were deported in 19 trains. After the war, the Jewish community of the city, once the largest in Greece, numbered just 1.950 members.
Until recently, the general public was scarcely aware of the central role the railway station played in the deportation of the Jews from Thessaloniki. The memorial plaque was ceremonially unveiled on 25 April 2004.
Between March and August 1943, more than 50.000 Jewish residents of Thessaloniki were deported from the city railway station to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Since the year 2004 a plaque has commemorated the victims of the deportation.
More than 50,000 Jewish residents of Thessaloniki arrested and deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.
Memorial plaque unveiled on the façade of the old railway station.
Thessaloniki, 2004, old railway station, now goods depot, Alexios-Nikolaos Menexiadis.
Thessaloniki, 2004, façade of the old railway station with the memorial plaque, Alexios-Nikolaos Menexiadis.
Thessaloniki, 2004, plaque commemorating the deported Jews of Thessaloniki, Alexios-Nikolaos Menexiadis.
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