Holocaust Museum
Culture
Holocaust Museum of Thessaloniki Finally Gets Building Approval
The municipality of Thessaloniki finally approved the construction of the Holocaust Museum, a decade after the project was conceived. It took a legislative regulation and two Presidential Decrees to resolve a series of issues, from ownership to land uses...
Diplomacy
Greek, Israeli Leaders Lay First Stone of Thessaloniki Holocaust Museum
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and visiting Israeli President Reuven Rivlin laid the foundation stone for a Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki on Tuesday.
"Thessaloniki’s Holocaust Museum is a tribute to the thousands of Greek Jews exterminated in concentration camps," Tsipras...
Greece
Thessaloniki Holocaust Museum Construction Under Way
Preparatory work for the construction of the Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki, is expected to begin over the next few days.
Plans are due to be completed in 2018 so that a tender for the project can be held, the president...
Greece
Construction of Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki to Start in January
The mayor of Thessaloniki announced that construction for the long awaited Holocaust Museum in the city, will begin in January.
Yannis Boutaris said during a meeting of the municipal council on Tuesday, that the museum "will be a project of...
Economy
U.S. Ambassador Pyatt, Tzitzikostas and Boutaris Discuss Boosting Investments, New Holocaust Museum
Boosting investments in Macedonia and the creation of a Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki was discussed in a series of meetings between U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt, the regional governor Apostolos Tzitzikostas and city mayor Yiannis Boutaris on Friday.
During...
Greece
Thessaloniki Mayor Gets Damaskinos Award for Promoting Tolerance
Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris was the second recipient of the "Damaskinos Award" on June 1, 2016, in New York City. The award goes to individuals who have promoted and defended tolerance and cooperation among all religions in Greece. Boutaris...
Greece
Greek PM Visits Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday visited the museum of the Holocaust and paid tribute to the victims of the Nazis.
"We are in a place of particular historical symbolism. In my first visit as prime minister in Jerusalem I...
Greece
Holocaust Museum to Be Build in Greece
Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, on Friday unveiled plans to build a Holocaust museum to honor some 46,000 Jewish residents deported and killed in Nazi Germany's death camps during World War II.
"This is the fulfillment of a historic responsibility for...