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German soldiers force Jewish men to perform calisthenics on Eleftheria (Freedom) Square in Salonika. The man in the background has collapsed from exhaustion.

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    German soldiers force Jewish men to perform calisthenics on Eleftheria (Freedom) Square in Salonika. The man in the background has collapsed from exhaustion.
    German soldiers force Jewish men to perform calisthenics on Eleftheria (Freedom) Square in Salonika. The man in the background has collapsed from exhaustion.

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    German soldiers force Jewish men to perform calisthenics on Eleftheria (Freedom) Square in Salonika. The man in the background has collapsed from exhaustion.
    Date
    1942 July 11
    Locale
    Salonika, [Macedonia] Greece
    Variant Locale
    Thessaloniki
    Saloniki
    Salonica
    Solun
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of David Sion
    Event History
    In the first large scale public action against the Jews of Salonika, General Kurt von Krenzski, the commander of German forces in northern Greece, ordered all adult Jewish men to assemble on Eleftheria (Freedom) Square on the morning of 11 July 1942 to register for work details. Instead of receiving work assignments, however, the nearly 10,000 men were kept standing in the sun for the entire day while German and Italian soldiers humiliated them in front of the non-Jewish population by forcing them to perform calisthenics and other distasteful tasks. Those who collapsed from the heat and exhaustion were beaten by the troops or doused with cold water and again made to stand.

    https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005422.

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: David Sion
    Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oswiecimiu
    Copyright: Agency Agreement
    Source Record ID: 13597
    Jewish Museum of Greece
    Copyright: Exclusively with source
    Source Record ID: 47C/25
    Central Zionist Archives
    Copyright: Agency Agreement
    Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives
    Copyright: Agency Agreement
    Source Record ID: YV 089C04
    Beit Lohamei Haghetaot (Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum)
    Copyright: Agency Agreement
    Source Record ID: 12822
    Published Source
    Vernichtungskrieg. Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941 bis 1944. - Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung (ed.) - Hamburger Edition, HIS Verlagsges - p. 186

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