Editing Zakynthos (section)

====World War II====
{{further|Rescue of the Jews of Zakynthos|History of the Jews in Zakynthos}}

During the [[Axis occupation of Greece]], Mayor [[Loukas Karrer]] and Bishop [[Chrysostomos Dimitriou]] refused German orders to turn in a list of the members of the town's Jewish community for deportation to the death camps. Instead they hid all (or most) of the town's Jewish people in rural villages. According to some sources, all 275 Jews of Zakynthos survived the war.<ref name="Holocaust Museum">{{cite web |url=https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/special-focus/holocaust-in-greece/zakynthos |title=Zakynthos |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|access-date=1 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The miraculous story of the Jews of Zakynthos|url=http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/The-miraculous-story-of-the-Jews-of-Zakynthos|access-date=10 January 2018|work=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com}}</ref> Both were later recognized as [[Righteous Among the Nations|Righteous among the Nations]] by [[Yad Vashem]]. In contrast, over 80% of Greek Jews were deported to [[Extermination camp|death camps]] and murdered in [[the Holocaust]].<ref>[http://www.afjmg.org/resources/jewingreece.pdf ''History of the Jewish Communities of Greece'', American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629161504/http://www.afjmg.org/resources/jewingreece.pdf |date=2007-06-29 }}, afjmg.org. Retrieved 7 December 2014.</ref>