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My family immigrated to America from Samarkand, Uzbekistan, when I was 14. Samarkand was my ancestral city since 586 BCE, when Jews were exiled after the destruction of the first Holy Temple in Jerusalem. We came to America to freely.
The first Jews arrived in Salonika in the 2nd century BCE from Alexandria, giving rise to the city's rich Jewish history, one also filled with tragedies.
Hundreds of people marched through the port city of Thessaloniki on March 19, marking 80 years since the deportation of Greek Jews during the Holocaust.