Renee Saltiel and Solon Molho grew up in the greatest Sephardic Jewish community of them all, Salonika, or Thessaloniki, in today’s Greece. 90,000 Jews lived there then; by the time the Germans had rounded up the city’s Jews during the Second World War, almost none were left. Only a handful returned. This is the story … Continue reading
source: https://enantiastonantisimitismo.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/antisemitic-football-graffiti-in-thessaloniki/ Supporters of PAOK F.C. have sprayed onto a wall in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, antisemitic graffiti calling the supporters of Aris F.C., also based in Thessaloniki, “Sons of a bitch” and “Jews” (in Greek: Εβραίοι). The graffiti has been recently discovered by lawyer & author Michalis Tremopoulos at the east side of the city. Thessaloniki, … Continue reading
source: https://sofistories.com/2016/03/27/a-teenager-who-saved-17-jewish-boys-from-the-nazis/ Neoklis Girihidis was only 16-years old back in 1943, when he was assigned a very dangerous mission; to transport 17 jewish boys from Thessaloniki to the guerilla fighters in the mountains, in order to escape the Nazis. 73 years later, the old man seeks again and again those children in his dreams. “Before I … Continue reading
note: The exhibition is currently taking place at the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki for 4 more days Centropa is a non-profit, Jewish historical institute dedicated to preserving 20th century Jewish family stories and photos from Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and disseminating these stories and photos through films, books and exhibitions. The first … Continue reading
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