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The renaming of a main street of Thessaloniki to Avenue of Jewish Martyrs and the closing of a wound that has been bleeding for years, with the transformation of Eleftheria Square from a parking lot to a memorial park, is proposed as a due honor to the memory of the Jews of Thessaloniki who lost their lives them in a brutal way in the camps-hells of the Third Reich, o representative of the World Jewish Congress at the United Nations in Geneva, historical researcher Leon Saltiel.
As a resident of Thessaloniki, but also as a persistent researcher of the darkest pages of the city's history, Leon Saltiel, in an interview with the Athens/Macedonian News Agency, on the occasion of today's International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Remembrance Day of the Greek Jewish Martyrs and Heroes of the Holocaust, underlines the importance of preserving memory as well as education as an antidote to the phenomena of racism and anti-Semitism that still exist even though almost eight decades have passed since the Holocaust.
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On January 26, 2023, Yad Vashem, the global Holocaust Memorial Center in Jerusalem, presented at the United Nations headquarters a new exhibition entitled "Book of names of victims of the Holocaust".
This monumental work includes in alphabetical order the names of 4.800.000 Holocaust victims who have been identified and documented to date and are included in Yad Vashem's Central Database of Shoah Victim Names. The total length of the Book of Names is eight meters, it is two meters high and one meter wide. A streak of light runs through the interior of the Book of Names, illuminating the memory of the Jewish men and women and children murdered during the Holocaust, for all to remember.
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A sensational performance about the history and displacement of Greek Jews was presented yesterday 25.1.2023 at the "Kostas Tsianos" theater. Honoring Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Thessalian Theater in collaboration with the French Institute of Larissa and with the support of the Larissa Israeli Community hosted the show "Saturday Day".
With the narrative medium of testimonies of Greek Jews who survived the concentration camps, poems and folk melodies, the performance unfolded the chronicle of the unspeakable tragedy and illuminated the faces and stories of people and families with
Fotini Banou in a touching performance.
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On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we talked with Victor Eliezer, Journalist, Correspondent of the newspaper Yedioth Achronoth in Greece and CEO of the Central Jewish Council of Greece.
Why was January 27 established as International Holocaust Remembrance Day?
January 27 was established by the UN General Assembly as the International Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust. On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi regime's largest concentration and extermination camp. With a unanimous decision of the Hellenic Parliament in January 2004, January 27th was established in Greece as "Day of Remembrance of the Greek Jewish Martyrs and Heroes of the Holocaust". With this decision, the world is called to remember the 6.000.000 Jews, among the 60.000 Greek Jews, who were displaced from their homes in Europe and brutally killed in the German extermination camps, just because they were born Jewish. Humanity is called upon to learn from the Holocaust and to teach future generations what fanaticism, totalitarianism and intolerance can lead to if this viper's egg hatches.
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The Presidium of the KISE, the Special Envoy of Greece for the Fight against Anti-Semitism and the Protection of Holocaust Remembrance, Ambassador Ms. Chrysoula Aliferi, and her predecessor, Ambassador Mr. Dimitris Giannakakis, participate in this year's Holocaust Remembrance campaign #WEREMEMBER, in context of a meeting that took place at the KISE Offices on 25.1.2023.
The commitment to the preservation of Memory, the promotion of Education through cultural and informative actions, educational programs, the national action plan against anti-Semitism, were some of the topics discussed during the meeting.
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