Thessaloniki
Until 1912 Thessaloniki was a multi-ethnic and multi-religious city inhabited mainly by Jews, Muslims, Christians and other smaller ethnic and religious groups. Since its incorporation into the Greek state, constant population movements have been a decisive factor in its formation. In the period after the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the exchange of populations, both the population composition of the city and its map and housing stock changed radically. Since then and until today thousands of people have arrived, settled and left its neighbourhoods.
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A tour of the stories of travel to and from Thessaloniki through its railway station.
Refugee movements from the Global South from early 2000 to the present
Migrations from the Balkans and Eastern Europe after the 90s
Post-war migration abroad and to the large urban centres of Greece
Kastroplikta: housing stories that span the century
The seamstresses, the seamstresses, the bean counters: stories of women’s work that
through the century.
The Jewish community of the city and its deportation (Thessaloniki, Chania, Volos)
Arrival and settlement of the refugees of 1922-24