View of the bakery owned by the Greek Christian Leonidas Pappas, which was situated on the outskirts of Camp Campbell. The baker was killed at the entrance to the shop during the pogrom of June 29, 1931.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 72128

Overview

Caption: View of the bakery owned by the Greek Christian Leonidas Pappas, which was situated on the outskirts of Camp Campbell. The baker was killed at the entrance to the shop during the pogrom of June 29, 1931.
Date: June 1931 - July 1931
Locale: Salonika, [Macedonia] Greece
Variant Locale: Thessaloniki
Saloniki
Salonica
Solun
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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Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 306-NT-648-F-8