Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki
Museum of Sephardic life and Holocaust memory in a rare house that survived the great 1917 fire.
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This guide to the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki follows Heinz Kounio, a fifteen-year-old boy from this city who spoke German, into March nineteen forty-three and the first train that left Salonica for the east. Along the way it turns to the house you are standing in, built in nineteen-oh-four for Jewish merchants, later home to a bank and a Jewish newspaper, and one of the few survivors of the great fire of nineteen seventeen. Best heard near the gravestones from the destroyed Jewish cemetery.
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