In Thessaloniki, Armenians, Like Jews, Keep Their Culture Alive - The Armenian Mirror-Spectator

In Thessaloniki, Armenians, Like Jews, Keep Their Culture Alive - The Armenian Mirror-Spectator

By Larry Luxner THESSALONIKI, Greece — Fronting the Mediterranean Sea in this bustling Greek port stands a haunting monument to the city’s roughly 50,000 Jews who were rounded up by the Nazis in 1943 and deported to Auschwitz. Each year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, local dignitaries and Jewish leaders make speeches and lay wreaths at the monument in their memory. Akis Dagazian is Armenia’s honorary consul in Thessaloniki, Greece One of those di…