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A relative of Dimitris Vafeiadis kisses his personal belongings during a ceremony for the return of personal belongings of Greek prisoners from Nazi forced labor camps to their families, held as part of the international StolenMemory campaign, at the Greek foreign ministry in Athens on June 25, 2026. (Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP)
June 26, 2026, 6:52 am
Greek Holocaust victims’ belongings from Nazi camp returned to their descendants
Items from Neuengamme restituted with help of Greek students who helped track down families of Jews who were deported to the concentration camp
By Marina RAFENBERG
A pair of finials, which adorned the wooden rollers of a Torah scroll, are among the artifacts being returned to Greece. (Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw)
March 4, 2026, 11:19 pm
Poland, in a first, returns 91 Jewish objects to Greece that were stolen by Nazis
Judaica was plundered from once-thriving Jewish community of Thessaloniki in 1941; found in Poland after the war, it was kept for decades in Warsaw’s Jewish Historical Institute
By Shira Li Bartov
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)
December 3, 2025, 7:09 pm
Greek textbooks provide fair education about Israel and Judaism, watchdog finds
IMPACT-se says Greek schoolbooks teach widely and respectfully about the Holocaust, while a problematic passage about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians has been removed
By Zev Stub
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
'The Little Liar,' the new novel by bestselling Jewish author Mitch Albom, is set in Salonika, Greece, before, during and after the Holocaust. (Jenny Risher/illustration by Mollie Suss via JTA)
November 18, 2023, 4:27 pm
Jewish writer Mitch Albom enters new territory with Holocaust novel ‘The Little Liar’
‘Tuesdays With Morrie’ author returns with a powerful story about how a Greek Jewish boy, known for his honesty, becomes a pathological liar after unwittingly helping the Nazis
By Andrew Lapin
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
Illustrative photo of a memorial to the Holocaust at the Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki, Greece (photo credit: Arie Darzi/Wikimedia Commons/File)
March 2, 2023, 9:48 am
80 years on, Greek film festival will pay tribute to deported Jews
Thessaloniki’s documentary movie event to recall once-thriving large community sent to Auschwitz with several screenings about Holocaust, panel discussions
By Elise Morton
Moses Elisaf, shown in 2021, was the first Jewish person elected mayor of a city in Greece and also the longtime leader of the Ioannina Jewish community. (Nikos D. Karabelas/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
February 18, 2023, 7:28 am
Moses Elisaf, first Jewish mayor of a city in Greece, dies at 68
Elisaf was also the long-time leader of the Jewish community of Ioannina, once home to one of Greece’s largest populations of Romaniote Jews
By Gabe Friedman
Detail from 'Portrait of Stella' by artist Maira Kalman, from 'One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World' by Michael Frank (Avid Reader Press)
December 29, 2022, 12:26 am
99-year-old Holocaust survivor is a final portal into vibrant life of prewar Rhodes
In ‘One Hundred Saturdays,’ Stella Levi shares with author Michael Frank her memories of centuries-old traditions of the Aegean island’s Sephardic community destroyed by the Nazis
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A stele of a Jewish slave, dated circa 300-250 BCE (L), is displayed in the exhibition "Stone Paths - Stories set in Stone: Jewish Inscriptions in Greece," at the Jewish Museum of Greece, in Athens, May 17, 2022. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP)
May 22, 2022, 4:45 pm
New Athens exhibit on Greek Jews reveals community’s ancient roots
Greece’s chief rabbi says artifacts on display at local Jewish museum, including inscription from as early as 4th century, show Jews are ‘an integral part of Greek identity’
By Marina RAFENBERG
Jewish family from Thessaloniki, Greece seen in 1917. (Wikimedia Commons)
December 19, 2021, 8:08 pm
Greek Jewish archives stolen by Nazis returned after nearly 80 years
‘Our history returns home,’ Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece says after Russia hands over manuscripts, communal documents
By David I. Klein
Nataly Oryon, a vocalist performing at the Oud Festival in Jerusalem, opening November 18, and appearing on the ToI Times Will Tell podcast (Courtesy Nataly Oryon)
November 12, 2021, 2:01 pm
Podcast: Grab a sneak listen to the sounds and performers of the Oud Festival
Musicians Wisam Gibran and Nataly Oryon each discuss their inspiration and musical directions, prior to the annual event at Jerusalem’s Confederation House
By ToI Staff
This Aug. 22, 2014, aerial photo shows a view of Pavmotis Lake, with the lake isle and city of Ioannina, in northwestern Greece (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
August 7, 2021, 9:42 am
Grave desecrated in Jewish cemetery in Greek city of Ioannina
Tomb covering removed and smashed marble strewn around it in graveyard which has been repeatedly targeted; Jewish community organization voices ‘outrage’
By AP
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