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The White Tower wears the yellow star today, January 27, 2021, just like 78 years ago and the 50.000 Jews of Thessaloniki, the 67.000 Jews of Greece and the 6.000.000 Jews of Europe. The White Tower wears the piece of cloth that became the stigma that would lead to millions of innocents being displaced and exterminated during the Holocaust.
The city of Thessaloniki remembers and mourns the 20% of the city's population that was persecuted. A dynamic and living part of society that disappeared when hatred and inhumanity prevailed.
The yellow star on the White Tower is a promise of the city, to turn the pain of loss into a stentorian, unwavering, single, clear voice for freedom, respect, solidarity, justice…. against those few, who even today strive for the prevalence of hatred and racism.
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This year, the Day of Remembrance of the Greek Jewish Martyrs and Heroes of the Holocaust will be commemorated with an online tribute and illumination of the White Tower with the uniform of an Auschwitz prisoner and the yellow star that the Jews were forced to wear on their lapels.
The online tribute, organized by the Region of Central Macedonia and the Israelite Community of Thessaloniki (ICTH), includes a video screening of the illumination of the White Tower, on Wednesday, January 27, at 18:00 p.m., as well as a screening of the show "Anna's Lost Innocence Frank" by the IKTH theater group "Entremosotros", on Saturday January 30, at 19:00.
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This morning, 5.1.2021, the vaccinations for COVID-19 began in the care centers for the elderly as part of the "Freedom" program, and the guests and staff of the "Saul D. Modiano" Nursing Home were vaccinated in the presence of the president of the National Public Health Organization (EODY ), Panagiotis Arkoumaneas.
The EODY staff was welcomed to the facilities of the Nursing Home by the president of the Israelite Community of Thessaloniki and the Central Israelite Council of Greece, Mr. David Saltiel.
The first guest to be vaccinated is the Holocaust survivor, Ms. Zanna Saatsoglou – Sadikario.
ISRAELI COMMUNITY OF THESSALONIKI
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The Israeli Community of Thessaloniki has scheduled a daily online lighting of the Hanukkah candles through the zoom online platform and live streaming through the I.K. Thessaloniki on Facebook.
The lighting of the first Hanukkah candle took place on Thursday, December 10, 2020 by the President of the Central Jewish Council of Greece and the Israelite Community of Thessaloniki, Mr. David Saltiel and the Mayor of Thessaloniki, Mr. Konstantinos Zerva, with the online participation of the Most Wise Rabbi, Mr. Israel, as well and a crowd of people.
Mr. Saltiel pointed out that this year's celebration has the peculiarity of being celebrated from afar and wished the future to be bright, stressing that the Maccabees fought for light and hope and this message was sent to us, not to lose hope because one is enough small ray of light to dispel even the thickest darkness. Afterwards, Mr. Saltiel welcomed the Mayor of Thessaloniki, Mr. Zervas, who for the second consecutive year is participating in the lighting of the Hanukkah candles.
Mr. Zervas emphasized that it is a joy and a privilege for him to participate in this celebration and wished everyone a happy Hanukkah stating that the miracle of light came to dispel the darkness and emphasized the special symbolism of this year, where all of us must to pray to bring back all that we love and soon we can all be together, in physical presence, to celebrate all the holidays.
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"The history of the Jews of Thessaloniki fills us with admiration and at the same time stimulates our conscience and calls us to be alert", said the President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, immediately after her visit to the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki on 27.10.2020.
"Excitement, respect, sadness, maybe even some shame: with these feelings I followed the traces of the more than two thousand years of Jewish presence in Thessaloniki. With these feelings I toured the history of a community that enriched the city with culture, creativity, business demon, its vitality, but it was severely tested in the twentieth century, culminating in its almost complete annihilation in the Nazi camps," emphasized the President of the Republic.
"As I wandered through the halls of the Museum, the lyrics of Zoe Karellis, the great Thessalonian poet, kept coming back to my mind: "Of Israel the tribe with silent endurance/ rigid secret power, omnipresence/ there is strong and unyielding". The history of the Jews of Thessaloniki, which unfolds so excitingly in the halls of the Museum, fills us with admiration, and at the same time stimulates our conscience and calls us to be alert," he added.
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