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August 9

1943

The last train in the deportation of Salonikan Jews leaves
that Greek city for Auschwitz. The number of deportees has
now risen to forty-three thousand, out of Salonika's total
Jewish population of sixty thousand. (USHMM 1993, 41)


                       Work Cited

USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Fifty
   Years Ago: Revolt Amid the Darkness: Days of Remembrance,
   April 18-25, 1993. Washington, D.C.: 1993

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