During the 1920s, the Old Town's Jewish Quarter was home to a thriving Jewish community of around 4000 people. Tragically, 1673 Rhodian Jews were deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and it's now a time-forgotten neighbourhood of sleepy streets and dilapidated houses. Early 20th-century photos and intricately decorated documents in the Jewish Synagogue Museum, which adjoins Greece’s oldest synagogue, the 1577 Kahal Shalom Synagogue , tell the whole story.
