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This year's celebration of Purim is marked by the loss of the two youngest Israelis who were murdered by Hamas during their hostage-taking following the terrorist attack on 7/10/2023. Citizens and children around the world, and especially in Israel, celebrating Purim will dress up as Batman and wear orange as a tribute to these children who were lost so prematurely.
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On Tuesday, 14.01.2025, the appeal filed by Avraam - Minos Moysis against Stefanos Chios and Georgios Gasiamis regarding the defamatory and insulting publication that had been posted on the website "MAKELEIO" entitled "TIGHT JEW HEAD OF THE "KORAKION" COMPANY WHO HAVE UNDERTAKEN THE CLEARANCE OF THE RED LOANS OF POOR GREEKS. PRESIDENT OF THE ISRAELI COMMUNITY MAKES US A FRIEND AND DIVES US FROM THE BACK DOOR".
In particular, the Court heard the appeals filed by both the two defendants against the conviction in first instance and by the Public Prosecutor of the Athens Misdemeanor Court. Thus, in acceptance of the concurring opinion of the Public Prosecutor of the Athens Misdemeanor Court of the seat, the A three-member Athens Misdemeanor Court found both defendants guilty and sentenced them to 15 months in prison each, suspended for 3 years, for the offense of slander. (CC 363) and even with the aggravating circumstance of racist characteristics (CC 82A). The Court, in other words, ruled in this case that the defamatory defamation was committed against the victim, who was chosen by the defendants precisely because of the characteristics of his religion, and for this reason it increased the initial penalty imposed by the first-instance criminal court.
The attorneys for Minos Moses, the plaintiff supporting the accusation, were Ovadias Namias and Elias Konstantopoulos, and the prosecution witnesses were Victor Isaac Eliezer and Panos Psomas.
This is an important and rare conviction with the aggravating circumstance of racist characteristics.
View HERE Minos Moisis's post
View HERE the relevant announcement by KISE (2017)
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Following the sad news of the loss of Constantinos Papastergiou, who had been the Mayor of Trikkaia for a number of years, the KISE sent the following letter of condolence to the Minister of Digital Governance Dimitris Papastergiou:
"On behalf of the Central Jewish Council of Greece and Greek Jewry, we express our deepest condolences and our undivided support for the loss of your beloved father, KONSTANTINOS.
Konstantinos Papastergiou, was an iconic personality who with a huge contribution, love and passion helped in the development of the city of Trikala. A man who did not hesitate to support the Israeli Community of Trikala for the preservation of the Jewish cultural heritage in the city and Greek Jewry through the organization of actions to preserve the memory of the Holocaust.
May God rest his soul and may his blessing and memory be with you always.
At the same time, the I.K. Trikala passed a resolution (HERE) highlighting his enormous contribution to the development of the city, and his support to the Jewish community with actions to preserve the memory of the Holocaust.
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The Israelite Community of Thessaloniki and the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki present the exhibition "Snapshots of occupiers 1941-1944. The Assael Collection" at the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, 11 Agios Minas.
The exhibition, with the aim of highlighting the history of the occupation period in the city of Thessaloniki through unpublished historical documents and, specifically, through photographs of German soldiers during the period of the Occupation, illuminates unseen aspects of Local History.
Visitors will have the opportunity to tour Occupied Thessaloniki and get to know unknown aspects of the past through rare photographic material. The evidence of the exhibition comes from the extremely rich archive of the collector and researcher Andreas Assaël. Assael's personal archive is different from other collections of possession photographs. The exhibition presents the entire private albums and photo sets of the German conquerors of Thessaloniki. The owners of the albums are not anonymous soldiers, but soldiers who served the Nazi regime, who introduce themselves through the commemorative photographs. Having their official and personal documents in his possession, Assael contributed to highlighting the faces hidden behind the photographic lens. As eyewitnesses to the multifaceted barbarity against the Christian population and especially the Thessalonian Jews, the conquerors immortalized conflicting events, such as the great famine in Thessaloniki and the events of Black Saturday in Liberty Square.
The Assael family is one of the Jewish families that hid with all its members together and were saved inside the occupied Thessaloniki. The story of Freddy, who on Black Saturday was brutally beaten by the Greek Christian dosilog Laskaris Papanaoum, unfolds through the images, and above all, through the narration of his son, Andreas Assael. If we could summarize the specificity of Andreas Assael's collection in one word, it would be the concept of "return".
Return as the collection "returned" to the descendant of one of the protagonists of this dark memory for the city and through him to the place and the wider community of the city, which it concerns, illuminating painful issues through micro-history and recommending a rare testimony with the in which we explore the intergenerational trauma and the traumatic memory of the German Occupation.
The opening of the exhibition will take place on Wednesday, December 11 at 18:00 at the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki. The exhibition will last until the end of August 2025 and will be framed by the scientific evening that will take place at the MOMus Museum of Photography on 12/12/2024 at 18:00. There will be educational tours for schools.
The exhibition was realized with the financial support of the Hellenic-German Fund for the Future and with the support of MOMus Museum of Photography.
Duration: 11/12/2024 – 31/8/2025
Hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 – 14:00 & Wednesday 17:00-20:00, Sunday 10:00 – 14:00
Photo source: from the Andreas Assaël Archive
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For the 11th year, the General Secretariat of Religious Affairs of the Ministry of Education, Religions and Sports and the Jewish Museum of Greece are organizing a student competition - an educational program for Holocaust Remembrance. For the school year 2024-2025, the student competition for creating a short film (video) has the theme "The Holocaust in the collective memory of the Greeks" and will be held, for the first time, simultaneously in Cyprus, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth of Cyprus, based on the 27/02/2024 Memorandum between the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and of Sports (General Secretariat of Religions) of the Hellenic Republic, the Church of Greece, the Central Jewish Council of Greece, the Jewish Museum of Greece, the Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth of the Republic of Cyprus and the Church of Cyprus.
- CONFERENCE IN AUSTRIA ON CULTURAL HERITAGE AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
- POST OF GR KISE ON THE RESOLUTION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF ATHENS ON GAZA
- THE CENTRAL ISRAELI COUNCIL OF GREECE FOR YIANNI BOUTARIS
- EVENT OF THE GIANNOPOULOS EDUCATIONAL SCHOOLS FOR THE PRESENTATION OF A BOOK AND ACTIVITIES ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST