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His actions saved numerous Jews and he survived the war (infosec.pub)
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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately, the Nazi occupation and the collaboration of many Greeks, also led to Thessaloniki being almost completely ethnically cleansed, as it used to have a massive Jewish population before. It's a very dark memory of the Greek history.