The city of Thessaloniki honoured the memory of its Holocaust victims with a silent march on Sunday, greekcitytimes.com reports.
The march began from Thessaloniki’s Freedom Plaza to the city’s old railway station to mark the 76th year since the departure of the first ‘death trains’ carrying Thessaloniki Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps.
Hundreds of citizens walked in silence, carrying white balloons bearing the message “Never Again”, while the march ended with a memorial ceremony held by the Thessaloniki Jewish community, the Thessaloniki municipality and the city’s universities, during which a tribute was paid to camp survivors Heinz Kounio and Achilleas Koukovinos, a former resistance fighter aged 100 years old.
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