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In a "silent apology" to the 50,000 Thessaloniki Jews that perished during the Holocaust, the city held a march on Sunday to acknowledge those that were missing from the celebrations for Thessaloniki's liberation from the Nazis on October 30, 1944.

"We must not forget the crimes in Greece for which German fascism is responsible," stated Ulrich Schneider, General Secretary of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters - Association of Anti-Fascists  (FIR), in a message to the 3rd Hellenic Conference on Holocausts and German Reparations to be held in Amira Viannou, Crete on September 14-16.

Israel's former President Shimon Peres discussed the ideological and personal significance of Greece on his own life, during the Washington Oxi Day Foundation's black tie gala in the nation's capital.