Les Juifs de Serres (Macédoine grecque)

Serrès (Serres), in Greek Macedonia, was home to a Sephardic community descended from the Iberian exiles received in the Ottoman Empire. Its members, Judeo-Spanish in language, were active in commerce, notably in tobacco and the region's agricultural products. The community had synagogues and communal institutions. During the Second World War, the region came under Bulgarian occupation, and in 1943 the community was deported and almost entirely exterminated in the Nazi camps.

Sources & resources

• Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
• Jewish Virtual Library ↗