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68 additional memorial stones were laid on Saturday 1stη June 2019 at the 1st Boys' Gymnasium of Thessaloniki in memory of the student victims of the Holocaust. A confrontation with oblivion, a valuable guide for the future.
Walking down Vasilissis Olgas Street in Thessaloniki you now stumble upon the dark past of the city. One hundred and forty-nine bronze stones inscribed with the names of the Jewish students of the 1st Boys' Gymnasium are placed in the ground outside the school to remind them of the harsh route of their transportation by the Nazis to the Auschwitz concentration camps during the Occupation. Of these only six managed to survive. The school yard this time was not filled with voices of small children but with residents of the neighborhood of Agia Triada and old graduates of the school who came to honor the students of their school who prematurely left life in such a brutal way.
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Two handmade bronze ribbons 10X50 cm., one in Kalamaria (at the height of the National Resistance) and another in the center of Thessaloniki (corner of Velissario and Agia Triados) remind from today the point where the burning of the Campbell Jewish neighborhood of Thessaloniki started and also the headquarters where the orders were given for the extermination of the city's Jewish Community 76 years ago.
At the same time, in the last few days, the placement of another 68 hand-made bronze memorial stones was completed at the entrance of the 1st Boys' Gymnasium of Thessaloniki, next to the 81 that were placed in September 
of 2015 in memory of the Jewish children who were deported and exterminated in Auschwitz. The unveiling will be done by the German consul Walter Stechel, the president of the Israeli Community of Thessaloniki David Saltiel, the German creator-artist Gunter Demnig and the initiator of the idea, Apostolos Dereklis on Saturday June 1, 2019.
Ο Thessaloniki businessman Mr. Dereklis having attended the 1st Boys' Gymnasium, he was curious, as he told ethnos.gr, to find out together with another graduate of the school what happened to the Jewish children who attended his school and how many of them perished in Auschwitz.
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On May 21, 2019, it was published on the website www.makthes.gr the following article "I am Greek, Jewish and a candidate" by Levis Benousilios* about his candidacy for the Municipality of Thessaloniki:
"I am a Greek Jew. I have traveled a lot and would like to get to know even more places. However, I couldn't live anywhere else but Thessaloniki.
Thessaloniki welcomed me in 1492 when I left after being chased by Ferdinand and Isabella. I have excelled, excelled and excelled my city, all these centuries. Plus I got chased from time to time. I want a city that is open, welcoming, that will motivate people. As a child of refugees, even among the oldest in the city, I would like to dwell on this matter.
Is Zidane French? Is Michael Jordan American? Is Antetonkoubo Greek? Of course it is! You do not lose your Greek identity by integrating the refugees. You don't lose jobs either. On the contrary, development, which they can contribute to if you use them properly, can create new jobs.
More: ARTICLE BY LEVI BENOUISILIO ON HIS CANDIDACY FOR THE MUNICIPALITY OF THESSALONIKI
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Commemorating the 76th anniversary of the tragic events, speakers and attendees expressed the need to implement "Never Again".
In a modest ceremony, on the morning of Sunday 5.5.2019, at the Synagogue of Monasterios, the memorial service was held for the 6.000.000 Jews of Europe, including the 50.000 Jews of Thessaloniki, victims of one of the blackest pages in world history, that of Holocaust.
Commemorating the 76th anniversary of the tragic events, as is also celebrated annually in the Israeli state (Yom A Shoah), speakers and attendees alike expressed the need to implement "Never Again," a phrase that is more relevant than ever. as, as they pointed out, both in Greece and in Europe there is an alarming rise of the extreme right and fascism.
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University of Washington professor Devin Naar spoke about Greece and Thessaloniki, through the stories of his grandfather, as well as the research he has done. Mr. Naar's lecture on 15.3.2019 had the theme: "Thessaloniki's Jews and the Boundaries of the Greek Nation - The Jews of Thessaloniki and the boundaries of the Greek Nation" and took place in the hall of the city council of Thessaloniki, in the context of memorial events for the victims of the Thessaloniki Holocaust.
Before the professor took the stage, he was addressed by the president of the Israeli Community of Thessaloniki, David Saltiel, saying: "In 2004, we welcomed a young man from the USA, Devin Naar. The then student is now a professor of Sephardic studies at the University of Washington and after 15 years he is back in Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki is the place of origin of his ancestors. His presence honors us."
For his part, Mr. Naar began his speech by speaking in Spanish-Hebrew, the language spoken by the Jews of Thessaloniki, saying that it was an honor for him to speak about the history of the city, and then he spoke in Greek, describing his first impressions from his first visit to Thessaloniki.
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