Greek Jews

Greece will be honoring the memories of thousands of Greek Jews killed by Nazis during World War II, the government announced on Wednesday. The government gazette said, “Today we celebrate with the rest of the Greeks, the ‘Day of the...

The Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens was first established in 1977 and was housed in a small space next to the city’s synagogue. However, the collection started to grow over the years and needed a much larger space...

Wanted for almost 70 years by German and international authorities, Alois Brunner, the Nazi war criminal who sent 44,000 Thessaloniki Jews to death camps, died four years ago in Syria, according to investigator Efraim Zuroff. Brunner was the right-hand man...

By Nota Karamaouna* - One of the fundamental features of Thessaloniki – Greece’s second city, sometimes known as Salonica – since its very foundation in 315 BC was its multicultural character. The city, a key highlight on our Exploring Greece:...

A ceremony at the Greek embassy in Tel-Aviv on Tuesday witnessed a naturalisation ceremony for six Holocaust survivors who were born and raised in Greece up until WWII. In brief remarks after an emotional oath-taking ceremony, Greek ambassador to Israel...

Community leaders already have begun a campaign to educate Greeks about the dangers of allowing a Nazi-like party to flourish, and Greek Jews are trying to figure out what more they can do to arrest Golden Dawn’s rise. For every Jew who lives in Greece, there are about 100 Greeks who voted for the country’s far-right party, Golden Dawn, last spring.

Everyone in Greece is struggling with the financial crisis and as a result, many Greeks have decided to migrate to other countries in pursuit of a better future. Greek Jews have not escaped this negative situation in Greece either....

Nikos Michaloliakos is the leader of the Greek political party Golden Dawn, now representing 6.97% of the Greek citizens in Parliament. Michaloliakos gave an interview to journalist Stavros Theodorakis, whose show broadcasts social and humanitarian subjects, in a bid to...

On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, and the UN Department of Public Information briefing on Bulgaria’s unknown part in saving its Jewish population during WWII, the Central Board of Jewish Communities of Greece sent a letter...