Salonica
Printed Calendars from Cavalla (Kavalla) Greece 1899
Salonica Printed Calendars from Cavalla (Kavalla) Greece 1899
Jews have lived in Cavalla (Kavalla) since the time of the expulsion from Spain. By the end of the 18th century, Kavalla had developed into a center of French commerce with close ties with Marseille and Constantinople. It already consisted of five neighborhoods with 900 houses (most of them Turkish). Outside the fortified peninsula, cotton warehouses were built, which together with the inns and the customs house gradually came to constitute the city's business district. The small Judeo-Spanish Jewish community of Cavalla led a quiet life until the outbreak of World War II. (Most Kavalla Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.)
On the night of 3 March 1943, all the Jews of Cavalla, Drama, Komotini, and elsewhere in the Bulgarian occupation zone were arrested and incarcerated in a number of tobacco warehouses in Kavalla. On 7 March they were transferred to Drama. Soon afterwards approximately 5,000 people were carried in two trainloads from Drama to Lom, Bulgaria, where they were interred in two camps. On 20 March they were herded onto four boats and sent up the Danube to Vienna.
These are 5 Calandars: 5660, 5662, 5664, 5668, 5670. 1899-1910 They are printed in Salonika Greece, but are in Arabic utilizing Hebrew charachters. They belonged to Ovadiah Nachmias & Comapny of Cavalla, Greece.
