On March 15, 1943, 2.400 Jews were forced to leave their homeland and deported to concentration camps in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, and Bergen-Belsen. Between March and August of 1943, 18 or 19 deportation trains left the city every three to five days, and about 50.000 members of the Jewish community of Salonika were sent to death camps in Poland and Germany. They were ordered to leave behind all valuable items such as gold, precious stones, and money, and only a small amount of Polish Zloty was given to them. On February 1943, Dieter Wisliceny and Alois Brunner, emissaries of Adolf Eichmann’s and members of the Reich Security Service who specialized in the “jewish” affair, arrived in Salonika to organize the deportation of the Jewish community, despite the opposition of the International Red Cross.