Jews

The infamous Philistines, the enemies of the Hebrews in the Christian Bible, were likely ancient Greeks who had migrated to their land, a new study claims. Scientists of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena,...

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and New Rome, Bartholomew I and Greece’s Speaker of the House Nikolaos Voutsis led this year's thirty-first ”March of The Living” in Poland, to honor the victims of the Holocaust. This year's event is dedicated...

The 31st ''March of the Living'' taking place in Poland on Thursday, honors the thousands of Greek citizens who died in Nazi Germany's concentration camps during the Holocaust of World War II. On Yom Hashoah day, or the Day of...

A silent march was held on Sunday to mark the 76th year since the departure of the first "death trains" which carried Thessaloniki Jews to their doom at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. At least two thousand people gathered at Thessaloniki's...

  The Central Council of Greece's Contemporary Monuments decided earlier this week to approve an architectural team's plan to renovate the historic Modiano Market in Thessaloniki. According to Morpho Papanikolaou, one of the architects who designed the project, the construction will take...

Retracing the steps that brought him to the Auschwitz concentration camp 75 years ago, 92-year-old Holocaust survivor Moshe Aelion on Sunday took his wheelchair and joined others who marched in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki to send the...

Vandals defaced the Holocuast Memorial in Athens commemorating the more than 60,000 Greek Jews who were murdered during World War II. Pictures from the small park overlooking the Keramikos archeological site where the Memorial is based show some of the...

Two Greek families have been selected to receive medals for their selfless rescue of Jews during the German occupation by the Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Israel, in a ceremony to be held on May 15. Ioannis...

Deputy Education Minister Theodosis Pelegrinis' statements on the Jewish exploitation of the Holocaust, which he believes that they claimed as their own, has been criticized by opposition parties. Main opposition ND spokesman George Koumoutsakos said that the government deputy was forced...

Eleni Kriezi-Apostoli (Lena Karrer), the daughter of the legendary late Mayor of Zakynthos, Loukas Karrer, known for saving the Greek island's Jews during the Holocaust, will visit Israel on September 18-21. The visit is being organized by the Israeli...