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Before the Holocaust, the Jewish presence on Crete dated back centuries. The first Jews to resettle on the island probably came from Palestine as part of the population movements that took place in the Mediterranean during the Hellenistic period. Throughout this time, the Jewish populations were mostly concentrated in Chania and Heraklion, but also in