View of the ruins of a wooden barracks in the destroyed Jewish settlement of Camp Campbell following the pogrom.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 72127

Date: June 1931 - July 1931
Locale: Salonika, [Macedonia] Greece
Variant Locale: Thessaloniki
Saloniki
Salonica
Solun
Photo Designation: ANTISEMITISM - Pre 1939 -- Greece
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Event History: During the night of June 29, 1931 and continuing into the early hours of the next morning, the entire Jewish settlement of Camp Campbell was destroyed by fire and 500 families made homeless, when Greek Christian refugees from Asia Minor unleashed a pogrom. Scores of Jews were injured in the attack and one Jew and one Christian were killed.

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Keyword: BARRACKS
DESTRUCTION/VANDALISM
JEWS (GREEK)
JEWS (SEPHARDIM)
POGROMS
REFUGEE CAMPS/CENTERS
VIEWS
Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 306-NT-648-F-8
: Record last modified: 2000-04-17 00:00:00
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