The Great Fire at Thessaloniki - View from the sea

The Great Fire that raged between 18th-20th August 1917 at Thessaloniki, Greece. In 72 hours, 9500 houses were destroyed which left more than 70000 people homeless. A consequence of the fire saw close to half the city's Jewish population, their homes and livelihoods destroyed, emigrate. Many went to Palestine, some to Paris and others found their way to America. Their numbers were quickly replaced by refugees from another disaster a few years after the war, when huge numbers of ethnic Greeks were expelled from Turkey in 1922. The fire is purported to have started when a spark from cook a fire being used by a refugee to cook aubergines ignited his shack

Aftermath Billowing Burnt Devastated Devastation Emigrate Gallieni Salonica Salonika Thesalonica Thesalonika Thessalonica Thessalonika Thessaloniki

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