This chapter reconstructs the story of the destruction of the Thessalonica Jewish cemetery in March of 1943 from two perspectives: that of the long history of the mutilation and displacement of dead bodies as a way of erasing or rewriting a past and that of local Greek-Jewish relations that became increasingly fraught after 1913 when Macedonia became part of Greece. Those histories converged at a nadir in 1943 when Greek workmen smashed tens of thousands of gravestones in Thessalonica and began a process through which the cemetery would disappear from the history of the city. The Nazis generally had little interest in destroying the evidence of Jewish life and culture. They were content to murder living Jews and to leave remnants of their history as evidence of a once and former enemy in their midst. From a broader perspective, the destruction of the Jewish cemetery and then its decades-long oblivion is an instance of erasing history by eliminating the bodies and memorials of the dead who are its bearers. The recent recovery of the memory of the cemetery and its commemoration on the site of the university represents a new stage in the history of both city and national memory.