Zana Sadikario-Saatsoglou, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, shows her arm with a death camp number on it during a memorial marking the 74th anniversary of the first deportation of Jews from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz, in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Greek Jewish community hails citizenship decision

Hellenic lawmakers decided to allow the descendants of Holocaust survivors, many of whom live in Israel, to apply for Greek citizenship.

In 2011 Greece recognised the right of Jewish survivors of the World War II Nazi Holocaust to gain back the nationality they had lost if they left the country.
In January the Jewish community in Thessaloniki finally got the go-ahead to build a Holocaust museum – partly funded by Germany – to commemorate the over 50,000 members of the Greek Jewish community that lived in the city before the Nazi occupation.

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