Three faces stare blankly from sepia-toned passport photos, haphazardly pasted onto a card to an unknown recipient. They are probably two parents and their son, but we’ll never know for sure. Under their pictures are the handwritten words: “Don’t forget us!”
The memorial prayer (Askava) and the laying of wreaths at the annual event commemorating the National Day of Remembrance of the Greek Jewish Martyrs and Heroes of the Holocaust on January 28 was among the last to be held on the pavement of Nikis Avenue, in central Thessaloniki. Eleftherias Square will […]
Rabbi Aliza Erber, 80, stood at the edge of a pier in lower Manhattan and told those around her to draw closer – and to look out toward the Brooklyn Bridge.
Speaking on the day for commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America warned Sunday against the spread of anti-semitism by religious and church officials.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday, describing the extermination of millions of European Jews by the Nazis as “the darkest chapter of modern history.”
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Saturday observed International Holocaust Remembrance Day, describing the genocide of European Jews during World War II as “an atrocious crime that has left an indelible mark on world history.”
The Greek Foreign Ministry marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday, emphasizing the need to safeguard collective memory as a defense against racism and bigotry.
With the slogan #WeRemember, the facade of the Greek Parliament was lit up on Friday as part of the global events held to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “
In the leadup to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) underlined the responsibility to pass on the memory of the Holocaust “so that the darkness of oblivion does not prevail over the light of memory and hope.”
MPs have observed a minute’s silence to commemorate the Greek Jewish victims of the Holocaust and others killed by the Nazis a day ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27.
Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, about 245,000 Jewish survivors are still living across more than 90 countries, a new report has revealed. Nearly half of them, or 49%, are living in Israel; 18% are in Western Europe, 16% in the United States, and 12% in countries of the former Soviet Union. Some 300 survivors live in Greece.
The building permit for the Holocaust Museum project in Thessaloniki is expected to be issued in the coming days, while the tender process for the selection of the contractor will begin next spring, it has been announced.
Eighty-four-year-old Rina Revah was nearly four when she was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany with her parents in 1943. She would spend the next two years of her childhood there and witness events that would stay with her forever.
Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, commemorated on Sunday the 80th anniversary of the departure of the first train convoy for the Auschwitz camp.
