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The light of the Aegean spreads over Rhodes with the same clarity that once illuminated the narrow streets of its Jewish quarter, Juderia. Where the stones still remember the voices, the songs, the prayers, the celebrations of a community that lived for half a millennium on the island before being violently extinguished, in a journey of death. And yet, memory resists. Sometimes, for history to be reborn, one voice is enough - the voice of a woman who lived, survived, and after decades of silence, spoke.
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In 1940, the ship Pentcho, an old steamship over 80 years old, sailed from Bratislava carrying more than 500 Jewish refugees trying to reach Palestine, escaping Nazi Europe.
After weeks of wandering in the Black Sea and the Aegean, the ship arrived in Rhodes, where it later foundered near the islet of Chamilonisi. The refugees were rescued and hosted on the island for about a year and a half, before being transferred to Italy.
More: "ZEW, PENTCHO'S CHILD": FROM RHODES TO ARGENTINA, A STORY OF SURVIVAL AND MEMORY
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On 9.11.2025, on the International Day against Anti-Semitism and Fascism, the fully renovated Jewish Museum of Rhodes was inaugurated.
"Today is a day of special joy, not only for the local community, for the Jewish Community of Rhodes, but for our country as a whole," he stressed. ο Secretary General of Religious Affairs George Kalantzis, in his greeting at the inauguration event, shortly before cutting the inauguration ribbon, together with Metropolitan of Rhodes, Cyril II.
More: THE FULLY RENOVATED JEWISH MUSEUM IN RHODES HAS BEEN INAUGURATE
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From July 18 to 20, 2025, the I.K. Rhodes organized a series of events for Holocaust Remembrance Day, which began on 18.7.2025 with a memorial service at the Jewish cemetery and a service at the Synagogue in the afternoon.
The main event took place on 20.7.2025 at the Kal Shalom Synagogue, in the Medieval City of Rhodes, which included a memorial service by the Rabbi of Athens Gabriel Negrin, candle lighting, greetings, a keynote speech and the laying of wreaths at the Holocaust Memorial, in Jewish Martyrs Square.
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From July 21 to 25, 2022, the Holocaust commemoration of the Jews of the Dodecanese took place in Rhodes and Kos. I.K. Rhodes organized this year again a rich program of cultural and artistic activities. At the same time, the new Administration - with symbolic ceremonies of honor dedicated to the outgoing President Bella Resti and the late Morris Magrizos - marked the history and course of I.K. of Rhodes, but also its commitment to development and progress.
The program of events started on 21.7.2022, with the screening of the film "Denial" at the summer cinema "Rodon". This is the well-known film that tells the true story of the legal battle waged by the intrepid Deborah I. Lipstadt against David Irving, who sued her for defamation when she accused him of denying the Holocaust.
On 22.7.2022, visitors proceeded to the Jewish cemetery where the askavot (memorial prayers) were recited and then participated in the Shabbat services conducted by Rabbi Gabriel Negrin of Athens.