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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

Greek Jewish Community

Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris sports a replica Nazi concentration camp Star of David after his swearing-in ceremony in Thessaloniki, Greece, August 28, 2014. (SAKIS MITROLIDIS / AFP)
November 10, 2024, 1:24 pm
Ex-Thessaloniki mayor who fought to recognize city’s Holocaust history dies at 82
Yiannis Boutaris, born to a famed Greek winemaking family, led efforts to capitalize on city’s rich Jewish history and campaigned to establish Holocaust museum
By AFP
Illustrative: A Greek flag waves at Alimos beach, in southern Athens, Greece, on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (AP/Thanassis Stavrakis)
July 4, 2024, 7:04 pm
Greek police arrest 7 over attacks in May on Israeli hotel and synagogue
Four suspects, including two Iranians, accused of racially-motivated arson attack; another three arrested for throwing flammable materials at Athens synagogue
By Renee Maltezou and Yannis Souliotis
Participants including Greece's President Katerina Sakellaropoulou (C) march behind a banner with the words 'Never Again' in Thessaloniki, on March 19, 2023, as they proceed towards the old railway station to mark the departure of the first train deporting Greek Jews from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on March 15, 1943. (AFP stringer/AFP)
March 20, 2023, 1:23 am
Greece marks 80th anniversary of first deportation of Greek Jews to Auschwitz
Hundreds march to Thessaloniki’s old train station, where expulsion began; approximately 46,000 were taken to death camp in 1943, just 1,950 survived
By AFP
Holocaust survivor Naki Bega at her daughter's home in Athens, Greece, on March 14, 2023. (Louisa GOULIAMAKI/AFP)
March 15, 2023, 5:49 pm
Long ignored, Greek Holocaust survivors finally tell their story
Naki Bega, one of less than a dozen survivors remaining in south European country, survived Auschwitz and 22-day death march; Greece marks 80th anniversary of first deportation
By Yannick Pasquet
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, right, is juxtaposed with Josef Mengele on the front page of the Makeleio daily in Greece, November 10, 2020. (Courtesy/Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece via JTA)
November 13, 2020, 2:50 am
Greek newspaper likens Pfizer’s Jewish CEO to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele
Daily warns readers Albert Bourla, a Greek Jew, will ‘stick the needle’ in them, calls prospective COVID vaccine ‘poison’; its publisher was convicted of anti-Semitic defamation
By Cnaan Liphshiz
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits the Jewish Museum in the northern city of Thessaloniki, on September 28, 2020 (Giannis Papanikos / POOL / AFP)
October 3, 2020, 5:45 am
How Greek Jews solved ‘dilemma’ of Pompeo’s visit to Thessaloniki on Yom Kippur
On the holiest day of the year, Chief Rabbi Aharon Israel managed a brief visit with the US secretary of state, a strong supporter of his community, without breaking Jewish law
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Greek Holocaust survivor Nina Camhi, 80, holds a book on the 'Holocaust of the Greek Jews' featuring her grandfather's bookstore in Thessaloniki, at her home in Athens, January 20, 2020. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP)
January 25, 2020, 6:29 pm
Greeks who survived Holocaust as children speak out after decades of silence
Some 83% of Jews in Greece, about 59,000 people, were murdered by Nazis but their story is little known at home or abroad
By Marina RAFENBERG
Detail from a 4th-century Greek inscription found in a Romaniote Jewish synagogue on the island of Aegina. (Courtesy Friends of the Mosaic Floor of the Aegina Synagogue Project)
August 28, 2019, 6:12 am
Campaigners bid to save rare 1,700-year-old Greek island synagogue mosaic
150,000 euros sought to preserve vivid geometric floor mosaic from what is arguably the oldest Jewish prayer house in Greece
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A view of the southern coast of Crete in June 1943. (German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)
June 11, 2019, 2:35 am
Greek Jews honor Crete community drowned in entirety en route to Auschwitz
75 years ago, Nazis rounded up the island’s Jewish population and forced them onto the tanker Tanais, subsequently mistaken for a German war ship and sunk by the British
By Bernard Dichek
Moses Elisaf, the first Jewish person elected mayor in Greece. (Screencapture/YouTube)
June 3, 2019, 2:32 am
Ioannina, home to unique Jewish community, elects Greece’s first Jewish mayor
Moses Elisaf elected with 51% of vote in city that was once heartland of country’s Romaniote Jewish tradition
By Gavin Rabinowitz
German Chancellor Angela Merkel pays tribute at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens on January 11, 2019 (Aris Messinis/AFP)
January 12, 2019, 6:33 pm
Merkel says Germany recognizes responsibility for Nazi crimes in Greece
Chancellor declares an understanding of the amount of suffering brought to the country during World War II
By AFP and ToI Staff
A woman places a flower on the Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki, during a protest against its desecration, on July 4, 2018. (AFP/ Sakis Mitrolidis)
December 17, 2018, 9:30 pm
Greek Holocaust memorial vandalized for 4th time this year
Swastika spray-painted on monument to Thessaloniki cemetery destroyed by Nazis, sparking condemnation from Israeli embassy, World Jewish Congress
By ToI Staff
A woman places a flower on the Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki, during a protest against its desecration, on July 4, 2018. (AFP/ Sakis Mitrolidis)
July 11, 2018, 7:18 pm
Holocaust memorial vandalized on Greek university campus
Monument to Thessaloniki cemetery destroyed by Nazis splattered with blue paint and daubed with nationalist symbol
By AFP and JTA
A Jewish headstone found vandalized in the Jewish cemetery in Athens Greece on May 5, 2018 (Courtesy/KIS)
May 5, 2018, 4:02 pm
Jewish headstones smashed in Athens cemetery
Greek police investigating latest in a series of vandalizations of Jewish cemeteries and Holocaust memorials
By AFP
Illustrative photo of a memorial to the Holocaust at the Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki, Greece (photo credit: Arie Darzi/Wikimedia Commons/File)
January 25, 2018, 6:58 pm
Greek Jews condemn neo-Nazi vandalism of Thessaloniki Holocaust memorial
Logo of far-right Golden Dawn party found spray-painted at site, along with flyers calling city’s mayor a ‘slave of the Jews’
By JTA
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