'It is extremely important that over recent years Thessaloniki has assumed its share of responsibility for actions and omissions of the past...the historical wound created by indifference, complacency and anti-Semitism,' said President Katerina Sakellaropoulou. By George Gilson When 44-year-old Leon Saltiel was growing up in the northern port city of Thessaloniki...

By George Gilson When 44-year-old Leon Saltiel was growing up in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest, the Jewish community, which once constituted the majority group, remained introverted and did not talk about their Jewishness, even 40 years after the city's Jews were deported and 95 percent of them were exterminated in...