A photo of a young Rhodian Jewish boy of the Angel family, wearing the Star of David on the lapel of his coat. The Nazi menace decimated European Jewry, and its tentacles of hatred and violence reached even to North Africa and the Middle East. Jews of all backgrounds were victimized, and many stories about murdered family members remain as the heritage of Jews throughout the world. In our family-whose roots were in the Sephardic community of the Island of Rhodes-we also have

Rachel Nahmias Kornberg z”L Rachel Nahmias Kornberg, age 108, died peacefully in her sleep on January 10, 2026, in Boston, Massachusetts. Rachel was born on October 7, 1917, in Salonika, the fourth of five children born to Avram and Matil Nahmias. Soon after, her family relocated to Monastir (Bitola), where they lived until the war. Rachel’s family owned a successful fabric store and lived comfortably among their neighbors. As a child, Rachel attended the Alliance Israélite U

Architectural rendering of the Holocaust Museum in Greece Thessaloniki, Greece — After decades of waiting, the Holocaust Museum of Greece will finally open its doors in 2026 on the city’s waterfront. The eight-story museum, located between the port, the historic White Tower, and the old railway station, will commemorate the nearly 50,000 Jews of Thessaloniki— over 90% of the city’s pre-war Jewish community—who were deported from that very station and murdered at Auschwitz du