German soldiers force Jews assembled on Eleftheria (Freedom) Square to perform calisthenics.
Overview
- Caption
- German soldiers force Jews assembled on Eleftheria (Freedom) Square to perform calisthenics.
- Date
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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.
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Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: David SionCentral Zionist Archives
Copyright: Agency AgreementSource Record ID: 29/6aJewish Museum of Greece
Copyright: Exclusively with source
Keywords & Subjects
- Record last modified:
- 2003-05-15 00:00:00
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