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Greek-Born Jewish Entrepreneur Joseph Nissim Dies At 100

Joseph Nissim, the Thessaloniki Jew who escaped from the Nazis, fought in WWII and later created the "Bolton Group" business empire in Italy, has died in Milan at the age of 100. Nissim's name is not very well known to...

“From Greece, This is Thessaloniki” Radio Broadcasted in Spain

The smell of the Jewish dishes, the sounds of Sephardic songs, the daily routine of the neighborhoods of Thessaloniki, but also the memories of the Holocaust and the survival effort, are revived through the narrations of the city’s Jews.  The narration...

Greece: Gov’t condemnation of Jewish cemetery vandalism

The Greek government on Saturday issued a stern condemnation of the incidents of vandalism and desecration at Thessaloniki's Jewish cemetery, which occurred in the early morning hours of Friday or late Thursday evening. Three suspects, two...

Dassault: The Greek Connection of One of Europe’s Wealthiest Families

Dassault Aviation is the company behind the Rafale aircraft that Greece has acquired to help protect its borders.

Former Nazi Camp Secretary, 96, Arrested After Running from Trial

The half-day escape attempt of a 96-year-old former Nazi secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp, who was to face trial on Thursday but fled from authorities, ended at noon when the police brought her before a judge. It was set...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Leads This Year’s ”March of The Living”

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and New Rome, Bartholomew I and Greece’s Speaker of the House Nikolaos Voutsis led this year's thirty-first ”March of The Living” in Poland, to honor the victims of the Holocaust. This year's event is dedicated...

Thousands Honor Greek Victims of the Holocaust in ”March of The Living”

The 31st ''March of the Living'' taking place in Poland on Thursday, honors the thousands of Greek citizens who died in Nazi Germany's concentration camps during the Holocaust of World War II. On Yom Hashoah day, or the Day of...

Germany Rejects War Reparation Claims of Greek Jews

On Wednesday, Germany rejected the claim of Thessaloniki’s Greek Jewish Community  regarding the return of a ransom which appears to have been paid during the Nazi occupation of Greece in World War II. A German official of the finance ministry stated...

A ”Different” Travel Guide for Greece Released by Eberhard Rondholz

Eberhard Rondholz was the WDR's editor, of the West German Radio, specializing in Greek-German relations. He has now released a tour guide in Greece, which is very different from others. Another colleague and friend of the journalist Eberhard Rondholz, went to Greece for the first time in the 50's, hitchhiking with a backpack on his shoulder. And he loved it forever. Not for its ancient glory and its sunshine, but for the immediate past and the present, he...

Anniversary of Istanbul pogrom

Recent history recalls that during the night of Sept. 6 and into the early morning hours of Sept. 7 enraged mobs descended into the Istanbul neighborhoods where most of the ancient metropolis' ethnic Greeks lived, worked and owned property....

Greece to allow hunt for Nazi criminals

Greece is to repeal a law that stops it from prosecuting Nazi war criminals, which could allow Jews from Thessaloniki to try to extradite a former SS soldier from Syria. Sources said yesterday that an amendment to the current law...