Six-million Jews, almost all of them Ashkenazim, were murdered in the Holocaust. However, many non-Ashkenazim — both Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews — also suffered under the Nazi reign of terror and mass murder. Unfortunately, their stories have largely gone untold. This post is about Sephardi Jews during the Second Wold War; a future post will relate the experience of Mizrahi Jews.
Quote: “The [Sephardi] Jewish communities of Serbia and northern Greece, including the 50,000 Jews of Salonika, fell under direct German occupation in April 1941 and bore the full weight and intensity of Nazi repressive measures from dispossession, humiliation, and forced labor to hostage taking, and finally deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and extermination in March-August 1943.”
— The National Holocaust Memorial Museum
Sources:The National Holocaust Memorial Museum
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