…Their Majesties went on several trips to places like Italy, West Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. World War Two and the Holocaust caused many problems for those…
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Greece’s second-largest city, Thessaloniki, is planning to build a Holocaust museum to honour some 46,000 Jewish residents deported and killed at German Nazi death camps during World War II. On…
…Pyatt’s Statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day here: On the 16th International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the United States will pay tribute…
…the most painful legacy of the twentieth century,” Sakellaropoulou said after she laid a wreath at the Holocaust memorial in Athens. “The Holocaust concerns all of us, not only the…
Seventy-six years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Greece remembers the victims of the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust, including tens of thousands of Greek Jews who were victim to the horrific brutality. Today…
The Hellenic Film Society USA (HFS) will stream two Jewish-themed Greek films throughout the month of January to mark Holocaust Remembrance. The drama, Cloudy Sunday, and documentary, My Sweet Canary…
Thessaloniki resident Zana Santikario Satsoglou, who is 98 years is a survivor of the Holocaust in Auschwitz, was the first resident of a nursing home in the northern port city…
The issue of reparations still haunts Greek-German relations, often bringing back dark memories of German occupation, the mass executions and the Holocaust. “Contrary to what many Greeks believe, only a…
…all food with them. The school where women and children were locked up currently houses the “Kalavryta Holocaust Museum”, founded in 2005. The sight of the sacrifice, on top of…
…Holocaust monument. He was also arrested for violating the coronavirus measures. “We condemn yesterday’s heinous desecration of the Jewish cemetery of Larissa. This despicable act is an insult to the…
…be inhuman,” while the photograph of that embrace made international front-page news. Cohen’s funeral service will take place on Thursday. Holocaust The Holocaust was the World War II genocide of…
The Arkadi Monastery (Μονή Αρκαδίου) is one of Crete’s most venerated symbols of freedom. By the mid-19th century, the Ottomans had occupied Crete for more than two centuries, despite…
…she has been focusing on reconciliation with the Nazi past, the Holocaust, and its aftermath. She authored the book Das Vermächtnis der Besatzung on Greek-German relations since the 1940s (Böhlau,…
…recognition of and legislation on the Holocaust but refuses to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Israel is probably Azerbaijan’s biggest weapons supplier. Israeli cluster bombs — usually banned under international law…
…of Human and Civil Rights. Turkey instead compared European Muslims to Jews before the Holocaust and called for a boycott of French goods. Although Paty was a victim of Islamic…
…secularism and freedom of expression that is protected by the 1789 Declaration of Human and Civil Rights. Turkey instead compared European Muslims to Jews before the Holocaust and called for…
Greece’s Jewish community is outraged by the recent desecration of several Jewish monuments in the country. Last week, unknown assailants spray-painted the façade of the Thessaloniki Holocaust Memorial, a monument…
…Holocaust Museum, which she says is “one of the most important issues” she will focus on. “One cannot tell the story of modern Thessaloniki without telling the story of the…
…Seljuk Turks. In this historical event lies the origin of the Hellenic Holocaust. In 1453, Constantinopole fell to the Turks. Emperor Constantinos Palaiologos led 5,000 soldiers against 80,000 Ottoman soldiers….
…on the plan to build a Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki by David Saltiel, the president of both the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece and the city’s Jewish community,…