Jews in Greece

Last update November 7, 2024

Also see the page of anti-Semitism in Greece

Holocaust museum of Greece will open in Thessaloniki in 2026

Nov 7, 2024: Story at MSN Art News [English]

Screening of film about the Jews of Ioannina who were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944

June 10, 2024 :Story at Athina984 [Greek] [Map of Ioannina]

Arrest of two Iranians on Cyprus for planning attacks on Jews

December 10, 2023: Story at IN GR [Greek]

Background of the terror threat in Athens on Jewish targets

April 3, 2023: Story at Kathimerini [Greek]

Two Pakistanis arrested for planned attack on Jewish center in Athens

Story at Greek City Times [English]

"Bloodbath planned" - Foreign-directed terrorist network plotted attack on Jewish targets in Greece

Skai [Greek]
Kathimerini [Greek]
Iefimerida [Greek]
eKathimerini [English]

March 28, 2023

Jewish Greece is a bundle of contradictions

Jan 26, 2023: Story at JC Jewish Chronicle [English]

Jewish experience in Greece

Jan 27, 2023: Story at JC Jewish Chronicle [English]

The moment 93-year-old Melpomeni Dina, from the town of #Veria in northern #Greece, met for the first time in 2019 the descendants of a #Jewish #family she helped save during the #Holocaust. Full story: https://t.co/BazSBctlwx #HolocaustremembranceDay pic.twitter.com/ItDF5SgSDH
— Greek Reporter (@GreekReporter) January 27, 2023

Holocaust Memorial Museum in Thessaloniki and the "guilty secret" of the city

December 2022: Story at Greek City Times [English]

Remembering German War Crimes in Greece

December 30, 2021: Article at Deutsche Welle [English] on the WWII era actions against Greece and in particular the Jews of (then) Salonika (now Thessalonika).

The heroism of Zakynthos where no Jews were given up to the Nazis throughout WWII

May 14, 2022: Story at NWI Times

The pre-war Greek-Jewish archives are being returned to Greece from Russia

December 9, 2021

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece and the Greek Jews with immense emotion welcome the decision of the Russian President Putin that Russia returns the pre-War archives of the Greek Jewish Communities, and especially the archive of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki which was looted in July 11, 1942, by the Nazis who plundered archives, books and religious artifacts from 30 Synagogues, libraries and communal institutions in Thessaloniki. In the aftermath of the takeover of Berlin by the soviet army, in May 1945, those archives were transferred to Moscow.

A long-term challenging struggle conducted by the Greek diplomacy and the Greek Jewry seems to come to an end thanks to the targeted actions of the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. It is an achievement of vital significance to our country’s history. We express our thankfulness to the Greek Prime Minister and all those who have worked and continue working for the realization of the return of the pre-War Jewish archives to our country.

Story at KIS [English] and Keep Talking Greece [English] and Times of Israel [English]

Election of Moses Elisaf in Ioannina marks change in Greek -Jewish history

Story at SKAI [Greek] and at New York Times [English] and at Tornos [English]

June 30, 2019

World Jewish Congress calls on Greece to commit to fighting antisemitism - Jerusalem Post – July 12, 2018

The flame still flickers in Greece - Jewish World

"Just outside the walls stand many buildings in disrepair, and while wandering these alleyways searching for a place to bed down for the night, we came across an old building with a Magen David (Star of David) on its plaster — and another building with the Jewish star on its metal grill work. We knew we weren't too late.

These days the large synagogue in Ioannina — a town known for its feta cheese and baklava — opens its doors for prayer only one day a year, on Yom Kippur. The inscription over the door gives its date of completion as 1829, but it sits on the site of an older synagogue that dates back to the 16th century. There was also a "new shul (synagogue)" outside the fortress that was all but obliterated by the Nazis."

Dec 30, 2016

Jewish Museum in Athens vandalized – July 27, 2010