The President of the Hellenic Red Cross – ΙΚΤ David Saltiel was among the personalities awarded by the Red Cross – Thessaloniki Regional Department – for their exceptional contribution to the community and their solidarity in the work and actions of the ΕΑΣ. The award ceremony took place on 8.2.25, in the Hall of Honor of the Thessaloniki Guard Officers’ Club, in the context of a cake-cutting event. The honorary distinctions were presented by the President of the Hellenic Red Cross Dr. Antonios Avgerinos.
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The Philosophy Department of the Philosophy School of the University of Ioannina, within the framework of the "Moses Elisaf" lectures on Religion and Philosophy, organizes on 16.12.2024, at the "Karolos Papoulias" Conference Center of the University, the first lecture on "Religion and Violence: Attempts at a Philosophical Critique."
Greetings will be addressed by the Rector of the University of Ioannina, Anna Batistatou, and the Consul General of Germany in Thessaloniki, Monica Frank.
A foreword will be given by the President of the Electoral Council of the National Library of Greece, Stavros Zoumboulakis.
The scientific responsibility and coordination of the lecture is the assistant professor of the Philosophy Department of the University of Ioannina, Antonios Kalatzis.
Professor Dr. will give a speech. Thomas M. Schmidt of Goethe University Frankfurt.
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The President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, on 29.10.2024, visited together the premises of the Greek Holocaust Museum under construction in Thessaloniki, they spoke with two Holocaust survivors from I. K. Thessaloniki and symbolically planted two pomegranate trees.
Mr. Steinmeier presented the Museum with a scrapbook of photographs from Ioannina showing the transport of Romani Greek Jews, who lived there, to the Nazi concentration camps and, as he said, the first photograph shows a girl crying and from her face he understands nobody what was about to happen.
The president of the Central Jewish Council of Greece and president of I.K. Thessaloniki, David Saltiel, who received it, stated that this album will be the first historical document to be placed in the new Museum.
The President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou, as part of her visit to Poland for the 19th Informal Meeting of the Heads of State of the Arraiolos Group (11.10.24), went to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.