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The Central Jewish Council of Greece congratulates the Hellenic Police and the EYP for the coordinated and effective actions, which led to the prevention of a terrorist attack against Jewish targets in a crowded area of the historical center of Athens, and to the parallel arrest and dismantling of a core of terrorists in our country.
Dozens of human lives were saved thanks to the methodical work and timely intervention of the security forces.
KISE, in a letter to the Minister of Citizen Protection and the Chief of the Hellenic Police, expressed "its warm congratulations for the coordinated efforts and the effective work thanks to which human lives were saved, ensuring the well-being of the citizens of the country and the security of its visitors".
The effectiveness of the Greek Police and security services is at the same time a clear response of our country against terrorism and strengthens the trust and sense of security of citizens and visitors.
Greece is a safe country.
Athens, 29 March 2023
CENTRAL BOARD OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN GREECE
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On February 6 & 7, 2023, the General Assembly of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) took place in Brussels, in which representatives from approximately 30 Jewish communities in Europe participated, who discussed issues related to recent developments and exchanged views on how to deal with the issues that concern the Jewry of Europe.
At the General Assembly, KISE was represented by the General Treasurer, Mr. Daniel Benardout.
The EJC General Assembly unanimously confirmed that Dr. Ariel Musiciant to serve as interim President until the end of 2024, expressing her absolute confidence in his leadership.
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On Sunday 5.2.2023 was held with all solemnity and despite the heavy snowfall that started early in the morning, the event to commemorate the Day of Remembrance of Greek Jewish Martyrs and Heroes of the Holocaust at 10.30 in the morning, at Holocaust Memorial in Riga Feraiu Square, with a memorial prayer by the Most Wise Rabbi Ilias Sabetai and the laying of wreaths by the political, military and religious leadership of Volos who paid tribute, sending a message that humanity must never again allow the repetition of Nazism.
The event continued at Conference Center of the Dimitria Diocese in Melissatika in the presence of organizations and a large number of people. It was coordinated by journalist Rossana Popota and lawyer Laura Nasika.
The moment with the was particularly touching lighting candles in memory of the 6.000.000 Jewish victims, by: the representative of the second generation of hostage descendants of the Volos Community, Lina Sabetai, the Most Reverend Metropolitan Demetrias and Almyros, Mr. Ignatios, the religious minister of I.K. Volou Maki Moysis, the Regional Governor of Thessaly Konstantinos Agorastos, the Deputy Regional Governor of Magnesia Dorothea Kolyndrinis and the president of I.K. Marcel Solomon of Volos. The seventh candle, which symbolizes hope, the future and the promise that it won't happen again, was lit by Elena Frezi, a student of the Music School of Volos. Pepo Salem accompanied the lighting of the candles on the flute, performing a piece of music he wrote for Memorial Day, which was heard for the first time.
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The importance of modern societies learning about the Jewish Holocaust, the "darkest moment in human history", was highlighted at the event "If not now when?" which took place on 5.2.2023 at "M. Theodorakis" in the old port in commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust.
In his introduction, Mr. George Antoniou, assistant professor of the Chair of Jewish Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki explained the terms "Holocaust" and "genocide" and how they were established post-war to describe the annihilation of the Jews. He explained that the Jewish Holocaust had a number of unique characteristics compared to other acts of mass violence. "Never before has a religion and a people been targeted over such a wide geographical range, in such a systematic way, with such a radical overturning of moral and social norms. Also never before had such an impersonal form of extermination, technologically intelligent and modern, been developed. Also, the racist ideology of the Nazis sometimes imposed the "irrational" extermination of the Jews, for example at the time when the Third Reich was looking for workers for its factories, it preferred to exterminate the Jews rather than exploit them more in terms of forced labor.