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Rabbi Leon Pessah: The Fighting Rabbi
Republished with permission from the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Photograph of Rabbi Leon J. Pessah...
Magazine Staff
Oct 94 min read
Jewish Community of Athens dedicates new memorial “Wall of Names” Monument, identifies 1,029 victims of the Shoah from Athens
New memorial plaques at the Beth Shalom Synagogue of Athens, Greece listing the names of the Jews of Athens who were deported by the Nazi...
Magazine Staff
Jul 201 min read
Jewish Property in Nazi Occupied Greece - New document shines a light on property reclamation
A historical document that sheds light on a little-known aspect of the management of Jewish property in Greece during the Nazi Occupation...
KIS - Central Board of the Jewish Communities of Greece
Jul 204 min read
La dolor después de la liberasión
Un anyo ya pasó Kuando en Yom Hashoah La Komunita Sefaradi Aki en Cape Town Tuvo el honor en komemorar Los ochenta anyos de la...
Isaac Habib
Jul 202 min read
A Historical Puzzle: Why Did So Few Jews in Greece Evade Deportation and Survive the Holocaust?
One of the unresolved questions in the study of the history of the Jews of Greece relates to the devastating impact of the Holocaust. How...
Dr. Devin E. Naar
Jul 205 min read
The Jewish Community of Rhodes after World War II: From Destruction to Revival
Interior of the Kahal Shalom Synagogue of Rhodes The story of the Jewish community in Rhodes is a powerful testament to faith, loss, and...
Carmen Cohen
Jul 203 min read
The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean
The Last Transport The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean is a powerful and meticulously researched account that sheds...
Magazine Staff
Apr 12 min read
Double Jeopardy: The Holocaust and the Sephardic Women of Salonika
A Jewish couple in Salonika in 1942 or 1943 (US Holocaust Museum). Judith Baumel coined the term “double jeopardy” to explain the double...
Nathalie Ross
Apr 16 min read
The Greek Jews Who Boxed for their Lives to Survive the Nazis
Greek-Jewish boxers Salamo Arouch, above, and Jacko Razon, photo below, both of Thessaloniki, were forced to fight other prisoners in...
Alexi Friedman
Apr 14 min read
Thessaloniki Breaks Ground on New Holocaust Museum
German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier participates in the planting of two trees at the location of the Greek Holocaust museum in...
Larry Luxner
Jan 74 min read
Holocaust Museum of Thessaloniki Finally Gets Building Approval
The municipality of Thessaloniki finally approved the construction of the Holocaust Museum, a decade after the project was conceived. It...
Magazine Staff
Jan 15, 20242 min read
Seven Miracles - The Story of a Survivor from Veria, Greece
This is the story of the miraculous survival of the Holocaust in Greece, of our entire family of six, including my two-year old brother,...
Isaac Daniel
Sep 5, 20238 min read
Greece Commemorates the 80th Anniversary of the Deportations of the Jews of Salonika
Republished with Permission from the Greek Reporter On Sunday Greece commemorated the first deportations of Greek Jews from Thessaloniki...
Magazine Staff
Apr 18, 20232 min read
Sephardic Book Review - Don’t Forget Me
“Don’t forget me, my dear children, my beloved children, my only reason for living.” With these words Neama Cazes, a 54-year-old Jewish...
Dr. Leon Saltiel
Sep 1, 20213 min read
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