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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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Created : January 30, 2019

Their unanimous and unequivocal condemnation of the crimes of Nazism, as well as the vandalism of Jewish Monuments in the city, such as the recent one at the AUTH monument, were expressed by representatives of the state during the event held on Sunday, January 27, 2019 at the XNUMXrd Warehouse of the Port, in Thessaloniki, on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The event began with a memorial service to the victims of the Holocaust to the sounds of the Choir of the Israelite Community of Thessaloniki.

This was followed by greetings from representatives of politics, self-government and the Israeli Community of the country, but also of Thessaloniki, while the main speaker was the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, Jens Plotner. 

His keynote address Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, it contained an emotional tone and personal references. "It is not easy to stand here before you. The country I represent has recognized the crimes of its forefathers. The killing of all these people is the result of Hitler's sick thinking. But the plan was carried out by many. And many did not want to know or they didn't care. Pain, shame and responsibility, these are all part of our German identity.", said the German Ambassador. "As long as in our country and in other European countries synagogues continue to be guarded by police, we cannot be satisfied," he added.

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