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With the resounding message "never again", so that there will never be another Holocaust in the history of humanity, but also with positive intentions for the renaming of a central street of Thessaloniki to Avenue of Jewish Martyrs, a memorial event was held at noon (29.1.2023) at the Memorial of the Holocaust of the Jews of Thessaloniki in Eleftherias Square. During the event, which took place in the framework of the actions for the Day of Remembrance of the Greek Jewish Martyrs and Heroes of the Holocaust, there were clear references to the timetable for the creation of the Holocaust Museum, while the representation of bodies from the political world and consuls was also crowded many countries.
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Volunteers and members of the Vardari Neighborhood Group, of Self-Help Promotion Program of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Salina Rico, acting principal officer at the US Consulate General in Thessaloniki, accompanied by the consul, responsible for financial affairs, Isaac Hansen Joseph (Isaac Hansen Joseph) and consular officials and all together helped clean up.
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SEE HERE video with her statements Anastasia Hamalidou, head of the Self-Help Promotion Program of AUTH and her Salina Rico, acting principal officer at the US Consulate General in Thessaloniki.
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The official opening of the new branch of the Cervantes Institute in Thessaloniki took place on Sunday, October 9, 2022, in the presence of Ambassador of Spain Carles Maria Casajuanas Pela Secretary General of the Cervantes Institute of Spain Carmen Noguero GalileaOf president of the Organization Red de Juderias de España, Juan Pérez Guerrero and director of the Cervantes Institute in Athens, Pilar Tena.
At the short opening ceremony, greetings were addressed by president of the Israelite Community of Thessaloniki and KISE, David Saltiel, who, among other things, noted "the importance of this project, which comes as the culmination of many years of effort" and the fact that "the Cervantes Institute in Thessaloniki, in addition to teaching the Spanish language, will contribute to the promotion of both Spanish culture and the rich culture of the Sephardic Jews".
Ο ambassador of Spain he underlined the dynamics of the Spanish language and expressed his particular satisfaction for the fact that Thessaloniki now joins the large network of the Cervantes Institute.
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The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki was visited, on 25.5.2022, by the new US ambassador to Greece George Tsounis and he had a meeting with the president of the Central Jewish Council of Greece (KISE) and the Israeli Community of Thessaloniki (IKTH) David Saltiel.
In his post on Twitter, the US ambassador says: "I was moved by my visit to the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki and the meeting with President Saltiel, to learn more about the Jewish past of Thessaloniki and the plans for the Holocaust Museum of Greece, a reminder to all of us of the lives lost and our need to stand united against anti-Semitism."
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The series of reports “In the City Itself. Christians and Jews in Thessaloniki" inaugurated on the afternoon of Sunday 20.3.2022 at the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, by the Minister of Culture and Sports Lina Mendoni. As he pointed out in Ms. Mendoni's speech, the Jewish Museum and its collections, will form at least the nucleus for the collections of the Holocaust Museum of Thessaloniki, which the government's goal is to become as soon as possible.
"We want it to be done so that it houses not only the memory, but also the very long history and cultural identity of the Jewish community, because we owe it to our homeland, to Greece, to Thessaloniki, but above all to the memory of all those who were lost, because there were many who entered the train and never came back", said the Minister characteristically.
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