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 and Jewish Studies, University of […]
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 framework of the Greek Presidency
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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 Mitsotakis, the Deputy Prime Minister,
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On the occasion of the International Remembrance Day of the Holocaust 2022, MOHA Research Center presents the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center’s exhibition SHOAH – How was it Humanly possible? at the Mohammed Ali’s Museum in Kavala. The exhibition deals with major historical aspects of the Holocaust, beginning with Jewish life in pre-Holocaust Europe and
Within the frame of the Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022 commemorations, the Jewish Museum of Greece offers a wide variety of high quality educational materials to all interested schools which, by appointment, are able to attend, free of charge, periodic exhibitions, educational programs, thematic tours, documentary screenings and oral interviews by Holocaust survivors. The educational programmes
On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022, the Embassy of Switzerland in Greece, under the auspices of the Greek Presidency of the IHRA and in collaboration with the Jewish Museum of Greece proposes the digital exhibition “The Last Swiss Holocaust Survivors” of the Gamaraal Foundation. The exhibition is supported by the Ministry
The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) held a very special virtual event, on January 25th, in view of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022. Under the title “There is Neither Greek Nor Jew”, CAM, along with B’nai B’rith International, the National Hellenic Society (NHS), the Hellenic American Women’s Council (HAWC), and the European March of the
Today, we commemorate the victims and survivors of the hatred that was the driving force of a totalitarian, criminal regime and its collaborators. Absolute responsibility and duty of all of us, who choose to be called heirs of humanitarian and democratic values, is to honour the victims and survivors, to reflect upon their legacy and
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