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Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camp prisoners in the final months of World War II, The Wheel magazine, the organization “Orthodox Christians in Dialogue with Jews”, the Academy of Theological Studies of Volos and the Christian Action of Russian Students – Orthodox Youth Movement (Action Chrétienne des Étudiants Russes, ACER-MJO) co-organized, on Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 April 2025, an online conference on the topic “The Orthodox Church and the Holocaust”. The conference included four sessions with 20-minute speeches and an open discussion among all participants at the end.
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A historical document that sheds light on a little-known aspect of the management of Jewish property in Greece during the Nazi Occupation was discovered by historical researcher Dr. Leon Saltiel, representative of the World Jewish Congress at the United Nations in Geneva.
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On March 26, 2025 The opening of the temporary exhibition of the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki took place Ashes and tears in the lake...History of the Jews of Kastoria.
The exhibition, an initiative of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki and the non-profit organization Eran for the Research and Promotion of the Jewish Community of Kastoria, presents for the first time documents and rare archival material from collectors. The exhibition is inspired by the book of the same name by historian Thrasyvoulos Papastratis and will last until August 31, 2025.
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*The following text is the speech delivered by Columbia professor Mark Mazauer, on Sunday 29/1/2023, at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, as part of the events for the National Day of Remembrance of Jewish Heroes and Martyrs
I would like to thank the Israeli Community of Thessaloniki and its president David Saltiel for giving me the opportunity to speak to you tonight. Today, a day of remembrance for the Greek Jews who died during the war, we think of those who were killed, about 45.000 Thessalonians and over 60.000 throughout Greece. Along with those who were killed, however, let us think for a moment about those who were never born. Two and three generations of children who never came into the world, after those who would have been their parents were killed. They would be the descendants of those who perished and they would be the ones who, under other circumstances, would mourn the dead. But since children died in the camps in addition to adults, and these children who never grew up to do their own thing, we take on the task of remembering.
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On the morning of Saturday, March 25, 1944, while the Christian residents of Ioannina had gathered to celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation in the Metropolis, they witnessed the arrest of approximately 2.000 Jews who belonged to the two-thousand-year-old Jewish community of Ioannina. The Germans gathered the city's Jews in two squares, the castle and the pier. After the initial transfer to Larissa, they ended up in Auschwitz and smaller extermination camps, where 1850 of them were exterminated, most of them only a few hours after their arrival. The photos were obtained by the German Army and belong to the Bundesarchiv, which has released them under a special wikimedia license.
On March 25, 1944, the German forces, following the orders for the deportation of the Jews of Ioannina issued by the German Security in Athens, gathered within a few hours 1.850 people and piled them in trucks destined for the infamous concentration camp of Auschwitz, 60 km west of Krakow.
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