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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 615

Jews in Greece

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
The president of the Federal Republic of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) with the president of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece David Saltiel (C) and president of Greece Katerina Sakellaropoulou (R) pose with photographs during their visit at the site of the future Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki on October 29, 2024. (Sakis Mitrolidis / AFP)
October 29, 2024, 5:22 pm
German president mourns Greek Jews killed in Holocaust at site of new Thessaloniki museum
Construction of museum, funded by German government, Greek municipal authorities and private donors, began earlier this year and is expected to take about two years
By COSTAS KANTOURIS
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
Then-Golden Dawn lawmaker Ilias Kasidiaris speaks during a rally against the construction of a mosque in central Athens, Sept. 5, 2018. (Panayotis Tzamaros/NurPhoto/Getty Images)
August 24, 2023, 12:52 pm
Prominent Greek Neo-Nazi running for mayor of Athens from his prison cell
Ilias Kasidiaris, a Holocaust denier with a swastika tattoo, is conducting radio interviews from jail
By Gabe Friedman
A man holding an umbrella walks past a Jewish restaurant that Greek officials believe was one of the targets of a planned terrorist attack, in central Athens, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
April 5, 2023, 12:18 am
Official: Pakistanis nabbed before attack on Athens Chabad had Iran-based handler
Senior Israeli security source names Mohammad Mohsen Reza‏ as head of network of Pakistani nationals that allegedly works on behalf of IRGC
By ToI Staff
A man holding an umbrella walks past a Jewish restaurant that Greek officials believe was one of the targets of a planned terrorist attack, in central Athens, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
March 29, 2023, 5:54 pm
Greece suspects fixer in Iran paid terror suspects to target Jewish site
Rabbi of targeted Chabad house and Athens Jewish community thank Greek authorities for thwarting alleged attack plot, as officials probe links to Tehran
By Derek Gatopoulos
The vandalized Holocaust memorial at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, December 27, 2022. (Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece via JTA)
December 31, 2022, 6:45 am
Vandals desecrate Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki for the 4th time
Swastika, white supremacist Celtic cross daubed on monument in Greek city that was home to the largest Sephardic community in Europe before the Nazi genocide
By Ron Kampeas
A Hellenic Railway officer walks in front of a train that was used by the Nazis to carry Jews from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz during the WWII, in the Greek northern town of Thessaloniki, on Sunday, March 15, 2015 (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
December 9, 2021, 5:31 pm
Russia agrees to return pre-WWII Jewish archives to Greece
Nazis plundered books and religious items from synagogues and communal institutions in Thessaloniki; they were transferred to Moscow after the Red Army took Berlin in 1945
By AFP and ToI Staff
The aftermath of anti-Semitic vandalism at the synagogue of Larissa, Greece, Dec. 3, 2020. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Larissa via JTA)
December 4, 2020, 11:33 pm
‘Jesus Wins’ graffitied on Greece synagogue and Holocaust monument
Incident takes place in northern town of Larissa, male suspect holding up a sign with Christian religious symbols flees scene before he can be caught
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Stefanos Chios. (Screen capture/YouTube)
November 5, 2020, 11:21 pm
Greek newspaper publisher fined for op-ed calling Jewish leader a thief
Court imposes $2,200 penalty on Stefanos Chios for describing Athens Jewish community president as ‘a crude Jew who runs a loan-shark firm that has bought the debts of poor Greeks’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative photo of smashed tombstones in a Jewish cemetery. (AP/Hans Punz)
October 14, 2018, 11:07 am
Jews’ headstones smashed in Greek city
Community in Trikala condemns ‘inexcusable and direct attack’; only 10 of its members survived Holocaust, some after British Princess Alice hid them in her home
By JTA
People walk walk in Athens' main commercial street on March 5, 2018. (AFP Photo/Louisa Gouliamaki)
March 7, 2018, 6:44 am
Five neo-Nazis arrested in Greece over attacks
Counter-terrorism police detain young suspects as as part of crackdown on far-right groups accused of attacking migrants and left-wing activists
By AFP
Study for 1917 Fire —Salonika” (2016) by Harry I. Naar (Courtesy of Naar via JTA)
August 18, 2017, 11:17 pm
A century ago, Jewish Salonica burned
The home to the largest and most dynamic Ladino-speaking Sephardi Jewish community in the world was rebuilt, only to be destroyed anew
By Devin E. Naar
This August 22, 2006 photo shows a street in the Ladadika neighborhood, which used to be the Jewish quarter in Thessaloniki, Greece. (Wikimedia Commons)
July 8, 2016, 4:00 pm
Greek mayor wants his city to remember its vibrant Jewish past
Before the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Thessaloniki was known for centuries for its Jewish plurality
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative photo of a 'Judas Burning' ceremony in Greece. (YouTube/Kalymnos KalymnosWeb)
May 9, 2016, 4:58 pm
Greek Jews protest ‘Judas burning’ tourist attraction
Outraged community complains that Easter ritual, promoted by National Tourism Agency, ‘perpetuates anti-Semitic feelings’
By JTA
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