STUDIES - Central Jewish Council of Greece, coordinating body of the Jewish Communities of Greece

Details: Created : December 11, 2020

The research program "Post-war transformation of Thessaloniki and the fate of Jewish properties" is included in the framework of the 1st Call for Research Projects ELIDEK for the Support of Postdoctoral Researchers/Trials. It started to be implemented in November 2018 with Dr. Leon Saltiel. Since November 2019, Dr. Andreas Bouroutis.

The project aims to examine the fate of Jewish properties in post-war Thessaloniki. As is known, Thessaloniki before the Second World War had a thriving Jewish community consisting of approximately 50.000 people. In 1941, Greece was under triple occupation (Germany, Italy, Bulgaria) and Thessaloniki under German occupation. In February 1943, the persecution of the Jews began with a series of anti-Jewish orders (yellow star, curfew, residence in certain areas - ghetto) and in March the deportation to the Auschwitz - Birkenau death camp began. A total of 19 Jews were deported in a total of 46.061 expeditions; less than 2.000 returned alive.

In March 1943 all Jewish property came under the jurisdiction of a new agency created by the Greek dosilogous regime at the behest of the Germans, the YDIP (Service for the Administration of Israeli Properties). The agency was responsible for allocating all Jewish property to new trustees called trustees.

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Details: Created : December 05, 2014

In the "Choices" insert of the "Macedonia" newspaper, in the December 2014 issue, an article was published entitled "Who destroyed the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki?» by Sofia Christoforidou.

The article presents the main conclusions of the thorough and thorough scientific research of the PhD candidate in Modern Greek History of the University of Macedonia, Mr. Leon Saltiel, on the destruction of the Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki.

Mr. Saltiel's new study, published by the Yad Vashem Foundation for Holocaust Studies, attempts to bring to light evidence of a "dark period in history," thus contributing to the preservation of historical memory.

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SEE the dedication

Details: Created : June 29, 2009

HOLOCAUST

As early as 1925, Hitler, in his book "My Struggle", had clearly exposed his ideology and racist politics. Among his racist references to various peoples, Hitler expressed particular polemic about the Jews, who he considered racially inferior to the supremacy of the "Aryan" German race, "subhumans" (Untermenschen), responsible for the crisis not only of Germany but also for the calamities of the whole world.

More: THE HOLOCAUST OF EUROPE'S JEWS - A Brief History