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Created : March 08, 2019

In an atmosphere of emotion, the unveiling of the work created by the professor of the visual arts department Xenis Sahinis in honor of the Jewish students living and dead who were martyred in the Holocaust took place on 7.3.2029 in the foyer of the AUTH ceremony hall.

On the artwork are engraved 76 names of Jews who were either studying at the University or had just graduated. The work was placed next to the first work donated by Mr. Sahinis in 2014 and which is dedicated to the Holocaust martyrs of Thessaloniki.

"For me, the term tolerance is not enough, this is not enough. We have to move on to accepting the different. This is the biggest step. We, with collective and personal memory as a weapon, are resisting the killers of Memory", emphasized professor and well-known visual artist.

In his speech o rector of Aristotle, Pericles Mitkas, emphasized that it is not just a marble slab but another attempt at self-awareness, honoring and restoration of the truth.

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Created : March 07, 2019

As part of the events, a press conference was held on 7.3.2019 at the AUTH administration building where the events were presented by the rector of Aristotle, Pericles Mitkas. 

On Wednesday 13.3.2019 they will happen two guided tours of 30 people each to the Jewish Museum and then for 1 hour what we called the "Jewish walk" (in the center of the city despite the fact that the Jewish presence is also detected in many other places). They will be guided by George Antoniou, historian, Assistant Professor, Chair of Jewish Studies and o Dimitris Goulis, member of EDIP and the two members of the Organizing Committee for the Memory Walk (at 5 and 6 p.m. register in database – Jewish Museum and Jewish Walk facebook page).

On the same day at 6 pm in the Municipal Council hall will be shown the movie Kisses to the children, by director Vassilis Loule for students of the Second Chance Schools.

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Created : March 01, 2019

"I met my grandfather and grandmother. Further back I know nothing about my family and its history. Hundreds of families like mine in Thessaloniki have not been able to find the traces of their ancestors until today. Their roots", said the post-doctoral researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Leon Saltiel, to ethnos.gr, on the occasion of the completion of the restoration of the monument of the Jewish cemetery at the Aristotle University by mid-March - after its desecration in last January. 

Seventy-seven years since the destruction of the historic Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki - which included 500.000 graves in an area of ​​350 acres where the AUTH is now housed - the Greek state has not managed to systematically record and study all the marble slabs that were saved. Hundreds of tombstones were uprooted during the German Occupation and were used for various building purposes in the city, such as in the Cathedral of Agios Demetrios, in the Royal Theater, on sidewalks, and even in the construction of anatomy tables for the Faculty of Medicine of the AUTH. Those that were saved from the streets and buildings of Thessaloniki were collected by the archaeological service and the Israelite Community of Thessaloniki and are today kept in the service's premises. 

These plates are requested to be given to the Israeli Community of Thessaloniki - in order to be studied and exhibited both in the Jewish museum and in the Holocaust Museum under construction - its president David Saltiel. 

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Created : February 22, 2019

An important development for the creation of the Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki was announced today by the mayor of the city, Yiannis Boutaris.

As he pointed out, the royal decree was signed in Belgium for the creation of the Holocaust Museum Foundation, which will be based in Brussels and will manage the Museum. "In this way it acquires an international entity. In any case, the general assembly will have international personalities. I hope that very soon some things that are delayed will proceed more quickly" said Yannis Boutaris, expressing his relief at the signing of the decree, which he said had been delayed since October.

The Holocaust Museum of Greece will be erected on a property owned by GAIAOSE S.A., adjacent to the Old Railway Station of Thessaloniki. With the Presidential Decree 98/2017 (con. 4, FEK 293/t. A.A.P./29-12-2017) the special urban planning study of the property for the creation of the Holocaust Museum in the area of ​​the Commercial Station has already been approved Thessaloniki in the Municipality of Thessaloniki. The specific property has been leased by GAIAOSE SA. to the Israelite Community of Thessaloniki, pursuant to a lease agreement, signed on June 18, 2014, for a period of 30 years, which can be extended for a total of 90 years. The choice of the site for the construction of the Museum is strongly semiological, since the old railway station was located there, the departure point for the German concentration camps of the city's 50.000 plus Jews.

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