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Chief Rabbi Moshe PessahRaphael Frezis, President of the JewishCommunity of VolosArchbishop Joachim AlexopoulasRaphael Frezis, President of the JewishCommunity of VolosThe Germans chose March 25, 1944, Greek Independence Day, to deport the Jews of Volosand any Jews remaining on the Greek mainland. Due to the valiant efforts of Rabbi Pessah,Archbishop Joachim (who is honored at Yad Vashem as “Righteous Among the Nations), andthe EAM, 74 percent of Volos’s Jews were saved. Of more than 1,000 Jews living in the city inMarch 1944, only 130 were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.Devastating earthquakes in 1955–57 forced many of the remaining Jews to leave Volos, andmost immigrated to the United States and Israel.U n i t e d S t a t e s H o l o c a u s t M e m o r i a l M u s e u m14