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Webinar Lecture: “Romaniots: the Jews of Greece in the Middle Ages”, by the Embassy of Greece in Stockholm

On the occasion of Greece’s Presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance 2021, the Embassy of Greece in Stockholm organised the Webinar Lecture “Romaniots: the Jews of Greece in the Middle Ages”, on the 24th of February 2022.

The keynote speaker was Professor Nicholas de Lange, Professor Emeritus of Hebrew ...

The Kalamata International Conference on the Holocaust, Genocides, and Mass Atrocities took place successfully under the auspices of the Greek Presidency

The Kalamata International Conference on the Holocaust, Genocides, and Mass Atrocities took place successfully under the auspices of the Greek Presidency

At its very end the Greek Presidency to the IHRA has had the much wished opportunity to organize a hybrid event, in which members of the IHRA Delegations as well as other honourable guests participated with physical presence, along with many more who attended online.

The work of the extremely ...

Unveiling of the Jewish Holocaust Memorial in the city of Xanthi within the framework of the IHRA Greek Presidency

Unveiling of the Jewish Holocaust Memorial in the city of Xanthi within the framework of the IHRA Greek Presidency

Within the framework of the Greek Presidency of the IHRA, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece organized an event for the unveiling of a Jewish Holocaust Memorial in the city of Xanthi, in memory of the 526 Xanthi Jews who were exterminated in the Holocaust. The unveiling ceremony ...

Thematic commemoration ceremony by the Embassy of Greece in Bern

Thematic commemoration ceremony by the Embassy of Greece in Switzerland

On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2022, a ceremony took place in Bern. This year’s theme was “Teaching and learning about the Holocaust: The example of Thessaloniki. A Jewish Metropolis. Its glory and its destruction”. The ceremony was organized by the Embassy of Greece in Switzerland, within the ...

Presentation of the initiatives takes by Greek state and governmental institutions to honor Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022

Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022: Greece honours, reflects, takes action

The Greek state and governmental institutions, with deep consistency and high conscience, paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust in the frame of the International Remembrance Day 2022.

Speeches were delivered or messages were posted by the President of the Hellenic Republic, HE Katerina Sakellaropoulou, the Prime Minister, Kyriakos ...

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