The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of the Jews of Kavala
mars 1943·Kavala
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Port of occupied Thrace, Kavala sees its community rounded up in a single night in early spring, shut up in a tobacco warehouse, then taken by barges and rail across the neighboring country to the death camp, from which few or none returned.
Kavala, a tobacco port on the Thracian Sea, was home to an ancient Sephardic community, swelled at the turn of the century by the rise of warehouses and leaf-processing workshops where entire Jewish families worked. The city had been under Bulgarian occupation since the partition of Greece. In early March, the occupation authorities rounded up the Jews of Kavala, held them in a tobacco warehouse, then transported them by river and rail northward, where they were handed over to the Germans and deported to the killing center. The community was annihilated.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Grèce
Pinkas Hakehillot Yavan ; Yad Vashem, base des communautés.