A Greek city council has been forced to apologise after it requested that the Star of David be removed from a commemoration stone due to be unveiled in a Shoah memorial ceremony.
Last Sunday, May 17, was meant to be a day of remembrance for the 1,484 Jews of Kavala who were deported and killed by the Nazis.
However, the Friday before, the mayor of Kavala had asked Greece’s Central Board of Jewish Communities to erase the Magen David from the long-planned memorial stone.
The Central Board of Jewish Communities (Kise) in Greece rejected the request and said the decision was “unacceptable, immoral and insulting".
