The Holocaust in Thessaloniki by Leon Saltiel

Author:Leon Saltiel [Saltiel, Leon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Jewish, Europe, Greece, Holocaust, Essays, Social Science, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9780429514159
Google: xRLaDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-03-31T01:38:21+00:00

Meeting between Chief Rabbi Koretz and Prime Minister Rallis

Maybe the most significant event where Gennadios was involved was the meeting between the head of the Jewish Community, Chief Rabbi Zvi Koretz, and the visiting Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Rallis. Rallis had replaced Konstantinos Logothetopoulos as prime minister on April 7, 1943, and made a trip to Thessaloniki on April 11.26

Koretz, who had learned about the visit, made a request to Gennadios for a meeting with the new prime minister. The request was granted, but Koretz had to wait in the bishop’s office until all the other meetings with the city’s notables had concluded. When he finally was able to see the prime minister, Koretz pleaded with him in tears to intervene with the German authorities so that the 2,000-year-old Jewish community of Thessaloniki could be spared from destruction. The prime minister only answered with “some unimportant evasions.” An eyewitness added that, after the unsuccessful meeting, as Bishop Gennadios was walking Koretz to the door, he told him “You see for yourself that the Prime Minister cannot do anything for this matter.”

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