The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of the Jews of Drama
mars 1943·Drama
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Tobacco city in Thrace occupied, Drama sees its Jews gathered at dawn, stripped of their property inventoried on the spot, then taken to embarkation points from which they leave for the death camp.
Drama, in the hinterland of Thracian tobacco country, was home to a Sephardic community whose families lived by trade and the leaf workshops. It had been, since the partition of Greece, under Bulgarian administration. At the beginning of March, the occupation authorities gathered the city's Jews in a requisitioned warehouse, held them there for several days, then directed them toward the Danube transfer points. From there, the convoys departed for the extermination center of the General Government. Almost no one returned to Drama.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Grèce
Pinkas Hakehillot Yavan ; Yad Vashem, base des communautés.