Language:
French
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive
Angaben zur Quelle:
94 (2008) 21-31
Keywords:
Jews
;
Sephardim
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Traces the history of the Jews in Salonika from the second century to 1943, when 95% of the community, then numbering 50,000, was killed by the Nazis. Also presents the memoirs of Revah, who was nine years old when he was deported from Salonika in 1943 and survived because his family had a Spanish passport. They were among the Jews of Salonika who spoke Judeo-Spanish and were allowed to request Spanish citizenship in 1924. During World War II the Germans offered Jews from "friendly nations", among them Spaniards, relative protection until 1943, when these countries were given the choice of repatriating the Jews or letting them be deported. Spain would not accept the Jews on its territory. In August 1943 Revah's family was deported to Bergen-Belsen in a convoy of 367 Spanish Jews, who were treated better than Jews from enemy countries. The Revah family was released after seven months, sent to Spain, and then expelled via Morocco and Egypt to Gaza. They settled in Tel Aviv, and later returned partly to Greece, partly to France.
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