Hundreds of Jews march in Thessaloniki on 16 March, 2013, to the old railway station where the first train left Greece’s northern city heading for the Auschwitz concentration camp on March 15, 1943.Greece’s second largest city is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the first deportation of its Jews to Auschwitz, with a series of events running to Sunday.Amid worry about the rise of Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, Jewish leaders from around the world have arrived in Thessaloniki to commemorate an event that decimated the Jewish population of the so-called “Jerusalem of the Balkans.” AFP PHOTO /Sakis Mitrolidis
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