Few persons can decipher solitreo nowadays.
In 1943, when the Jews of Greece had to fill in the following forms for the Germans, many of them signed their names either in solitreo or in Latin letters, in French. When one looks through documents dating from before the 1940 war, one realized that the Salonika Jews spoke and wrote French quite fluently. Whenever they transcribed their names into Latin letters, they would naturally adopt the rules of French phonetics, which we have tried to apply to the translation of these documents, except where we had to consider the original meaning of the names. It is obvious from these considerations that it is impossible to translate any Greek letter by the same Latin letter in all cases. I decided to use the French phonetics because the French language was widely spoken in Salonika and the signatures using Latin letters used French phonetics, with the exceptions for the names entering the categories hereunder.