Greece

The president of Greece's Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) and the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, David Saltiel, was awarded the "Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany" on Thursday, for his...

The Greek Jewish community of Thessaloniki has decided to sue the German state for the return of a ransom which appears to have been paid during the Nazi occupation of Greece in World War II. As the president of Thessaloniki’s...

The Greek Jewish community in a letter to the country’s political leaders and President Kaloros Papoulias expressed its “revulsion” to the swearing in of an anti-Semitic musician as a Member of the Greek Parliament. Artemios Mattheopoulos of the far-right Golden...

The Greek Jewish community sent a letter to the country's political leaders and the President expressing its aversion towards the decision of far-right party Golden Dawn to select an anti-Semitic musician as an MP, after former Golden Dawn MP...

On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, and the UN Department of Public Information briefing on Bulgaria’s unknown part in saving its Jewish population during WWII, the Central Board of Jewish Communities of Greece sent a letter...

The Jewish community of Greece might be unable to pay its bills by 2013 unless it receives aid from Jewish organizations abroad, local leaders have told the Jerusalem Post. Benjamin Albelas, president of the Jewish community of Athens, said his...

This week, the Greek Jewish community asked for aid from Jewish communities around the world so that synagogues and other services may continue to function. According to Benjamin Albelas and David Saltiel, the presidents of the Jewish communities in Athens...

The Jewish community of Thessaloniki, in an announcement made on July 19th, demands that the culprits who desecrated the Holocaust Memorial, located in Liberty Square should be punished and that all necessary measures should be taken for the memorial's protection. On Saturday,...

The Greek Jewish community has expressed anger and despair after a Jewish cemetery in Nikaia near Athens was vandalized on Friday. The head of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, or KIS, Minos Moissis, said he was “very...

The moving film "Cloudy Sunday," which was released in 2021, tells the poignant and tragic story of the Greek-Jewish population of Thessaloniki during WWII. Cloudy Sunday: The Story Against the wider backdrop of WWII, the film follows two lovers, Estrea and...

In 2019, 92-year-old Melpomeni Dina, from the town of Veria in northern Greece, met for the first time in Jerusalem the descendants of a Jewish family she helped save during the Holocaust. One by one, the 40 descendants of the...

The President of the American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece, sent Passover greetings and gave an update on the Museum's reopening.

Greece condemned the vandalism of a street mural in Thessaloniki which depicts the extermination of the city's Jews in Nazi camps.

The President of the Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos officially opened the new wing of the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki on Sunday afternoon. In his remarks, President Pavlopoulos noted the need to remember that the Holocaust was the most atrocious crime against humanity...

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece on Monday congratulated Dr. Moses Elisaf on his election as mayor of the city of Ioannina, in northwestern Greece. "For the Greek Jewry," the board's announcement said, "the success of Moses Elisaf signals...