Greek Jews

German President to Attend Event on Holocaust Museum Construction in Thessaloniki

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou will attend an event in Thessaloniki on October 29 to mark…

25 October 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

Greek Parliament on Holocaust Remembrance Day: "We remember"

The façade of the Greek Parliament commemorated the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust…

27 January 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

Priest and mayor put their own lives at risk to save the Jewish population on a Greek island during WWII

While more than 80% of Greek Jews were killed during the Holocaust, the entire Jewish community of Zakynthos was saved.…

28 January 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

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

Hellenic Film Society USA commemorates Holocaust Remembrance

The Hellenic Film Society USA (HFS) will stream two Jewish-themed Greek films throughout the month of January to mark Holocaust…

8 January 2021

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

Greece is the first country to adopt the working definition of Holocaust denial

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with members of the Central Jewish Council of Greece on Friday, on the eve of…

9 November 2019

Greece honours Holocaust Remembrance Day

Greece honours Holocaust Remembrance Day Greece’s foreign ministry on Sunday issued a statement for the 74th anniversary of International Holocaust…

28 January 2019

First foundation laid for Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki

The Thessaloniki Holocaust Museum will express the international message of "Never Again," Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said during an event…

31 January 2018

Commemorating Jews of Greece: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Seventy-three years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Greece today remembers the victims of the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust and among them the…

27 January 2018

Greek Jews honour villagers who protected them from Nazis

The President of the Jewish Community of Karditsa Maki Kapeta, unveiled a monument on Sunday at the village of Amarantos in…

19 June 2017

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