Auschwitz

Last Auschwitz Survivor in Ioannina, Janet Nahmia, Passes Away at 99

Janet Nahmia, the last Auschwitz survivor from Ioannina, passed away on December 2, just weeks before her 100th birthday. Born…

6 December 2024

Commemorating Jews of Greece: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Seventy-six years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Greece remembers the victims of the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust, including tens of thousands of…

27 January 2024

Vaso Stamatiou: The last Greek survivor of Auschwitz has died

Vaso Stamatiou, the last Greek survivor of Auschwitz, has passed away. She was one of the few Greek women imprisoned…

24 June 2023

“Never Again”: The Jews of Thessaloniki and the Holocaust

Between 15 March and 10 August 1943, over forty thousand members of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki were rounded up…

29 April 2023

Greek city marks 80th anniversary of Auschwitz train convoy

Greece´s second-largest city, Thessaloniki, commemorated on Sunday the 80th anniversary of the departure of the first train convoy from the…

20 March 2023

Commemorating Jews of Greece: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Seventy-six years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Greece remembers the victims of the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust, including tens of thousands of…

27 January 2023

Greek President leads 2,000 people in 'Never again, Thessaloniki – Auschwitz' march

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou led over two thousand people in the annual 'Never again, Thessaloniki – Auschwitz' march last Sunday,…

23 March 2022

Commemorating Jews of Greece: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Seventy-six years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Greece remembers the victims of the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust, including tens of thousands of…

27 January 2022

Last Greek Jewish survivor of Auschwitz died

Isaac Mizan, the last Holocaust survivor from the (former) Jewish community of Arta in northwest Greece and one of the…

29 May 2021

Parents of Pfizer CEO narrowly escaped death in Holocaust

If it hadn’t been for the kindness of an uncle and the insight of his grandfather, Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert…

10 May 2021

US Ambassador Pyatt on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

The US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt issued a statement marking the 16th International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 76th anniversary…

28 January 2021

Athens Mayor Bakoyannis meets with 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Isaak Mizan

"It is my honour, Mr. Mizan, that I met you and I will be able to talk about you to…

28 January 2021

Commemorating Jews of Greece: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Seventy-six years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Greece remembers the victims of the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust, including tens of thousands of…

27 January 2021

98-year-old Holocaust survivor vaccinated in Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki resident Zana Santikario Satsoglou, who is 98 years is a survivor of the Holocaust in Auschwitz, was the first…

6 January 2021

Greek President expresses support to Italy during its coronavirus lockdown

Greece’s President Prokopios Pavlopoulos, on Tuesday spoke on the phone with his Italian counterpart President Sergio Mattarella. Pavlopoulos expressed the…

11 March 2020

Greece's Jewish community condemns Turkish Minister's 'Auschwitz' comparison to Evros

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece KIS, condemned and denounced the “unacceptable and deplorable” statement by Turkey's Deputy…

10 March 2020

Greek PM in Auschwitz says world must “never forget what happened here”

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust during a visit to the former Auschwitz…

28 January 2020

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