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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
Akis Dagazian, Armenia’s honorary consul in Thessaloniki, stands in front of the Armenian Church of the Virgin Mary. (Larry Luxner/JTA)
September 30, 2025, 7:49 am
Thessaloniki’s Armenian minority and Jewish past are bound by a shared history of genocide
Greek port city with longstanding Armenian community was mostly Jewish before the Holocaust; Armenians emphasize marking 1915 genocide, which Netanyahu recently recognized
By Larry Luxner
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
'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
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
A crane operator, firefighters and rescuers work the scene of a collision in Tempe, about 376 kilometers (235 miles) north of Athens, near Larissa city, Greece, March 1, 2023. (AP/Vaggelis Kousioras)
March 1, 2023, 10:31 am
Fiery head-on train crash in Greece kills at least 32, injures 85
Multiple carriages derail and at least 3 burst into flames as locomotive traveling from Athens to Thessaloniki emerges from highway underpass; cause of collision unclear
By Agencies
The vandalized Holocaust memorial at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, December 27, 2022. (Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece via JTA)
January 12, 2023, 8:49 pm
Thessaloniki Holocaust memorial vandalized for second time in weeks
Jewish community laments lack of arrests after mural in Greek city defaced with swastikas and fascist symbols: ‘Antisemites roam freely’
By AFP
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
A woman places flowers on a train wagon at the old train station in Thessaloniki, Greece, on the 74th anniversary of the roundup and deportation of its Jews to Nazi extermination camps during World War II, March 19, 2017. (Giannis Papanikos/AP)
March 18, 2021, 7:02 pm
Greece to take over presidency of International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
Foreign Ministry says first term as head of IHRA, beginning next month, has ‘particular importance’; development comes as local mural about Jewish victims of Nazis is vandalized
By AFP
Illustrative: Graves in a cemetery for the Jewish community in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on May 30, 2014. (AP/ Nikolas Giakoumidis/File)
October 19, 2020, 10:00 pm
Jewish cemeteries, Holocaust memorial desecrated in Greece
‘With Jews you lose’ graffitied at monument In Thessaloniki commemorating Jews from the city killed by the Nazis, ‘Death to Israel’ found written at graveyard
By AFP
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
Jews in Salonika registering at Libery Square in July 1942. (Bundesarchiv)
January 23, 2020, 5:48 am
The Jew who worked for the Nazis and hunted down refugees in WWII Greece
The story of Vital Hasson, leader of Thessaloniki’s Jewish police who sent families — and his own relatives — to Auschwitz, shows that identity doesn’t always determine destiny
By Sarah Abrevaya Stein
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