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Friday, 27 July 2018 13:41 |
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The President of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Amb. Ronald Lauder and WJC’s CEO Mr. Robert Singer sent to the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Prokopiοs Pavlopoulos and to the Prime Minister of Greece Mr. Alexis Tsipras the following letter of condolences for the victims of the fires that devastated Attica on July 24th, 2018:
“On behalf of the World Jewish Congress and our more than 100 affiliated communities worldwide, we would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the Greek people following the tragic loss of life due to the ongoing wildfires.
Your nation has demonstrated incredible and admirable resilience in the face of this unthinkable calamity.
We stand in solidarity with the people of Greece as you confront this crisis, and we pray for the fires to end speedily with no further loss of life or injury”. |
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Friday, 27 July 2018 08:28 |
 The European Union of Jewish Students fondly remembers Greece and was immediately mobilized to help the victims of the fires that devasted Attica on July 24, 2018. EUJS posted the following call for donations on Facebook:
Last year, Greece welcomed the European Union of Jewish Students and Summer U with open arms. We met the local Jewish community, we enjoyed Greece’s beautiful islands, as well as its hospitality.
As our thoughts are with all those affected by the terrible fires taking over the country, it is our turn to show our solidarity!
You can help by making a donation through the Greek government:
Eidikos Logariasmos Pyroplikton ths 23hs kai 24hs Iouliou 2018, Bank of Greece
BIC/ SWIFT: BNGRGRAA
IBAN: GR 4601000230000002341195169 |
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Wednesday, 25 July 2018 14:09 |
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The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece joins the national mourning for the fires that burnt to the ground the areas of Marathon and Rafina in the region of Attica and expresses the deepest grief and the all hearted solidarity of the Greek Jewry to the relatives of the victims and to the wounded.
We hope that this unspeakable tragedy that left behind so many losses and uncountable damages, comes to an end and that the suffering people are healthy and strong to cope with this devastating disaster.
The European Jewish Congress (EJC) in its announcement of July 25, 2018, stated: “The European Jewish Congress stands in solidarity with Greece following the devastating wildfires that have raged across the Attica region and have tragically taken the lives of more than 70 people. On behalf of 42 national Jewish communities in Europe, we mourn this tragic loss of life and extend our heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims. Our prayers and thoughts are with the Greek people and we send our encouragement to those bravely engaged in search and rescue efforts”.
The CEO of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), David Harris, through a twitter post, stated: “AJC is supporting the relief efforts to help Greece. I urge others to do the same. So many lives have been lost due to fires. So many families are suffering. So many homes have been destroyed. Let’s do what we can to assist our Greek friends”.
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Thursday, 12 July 2018 07:25 |
Press Release WJC, July 11, 2018 - The World Jewish Congress echoes the Greek Jewish community’s calls of “shame, shame, shame” following the desecration of the Jewish Monument in the campus of the Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki, in the Observatory Park. This desecration comes just 12 days after the Holocaust Monument in Thessaloniki was vandalized for a third time in seven months.
The Monument was erected to commemorate the collective memory of the Jewish students of the Aristotle University who perished during the Holocaust. It also serves to mark an old Jewish cemetery which was destroyed by the Nazis and their collaborators in 1942, the remains upon which the Aristotle University campus was built.
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said, ‘’The consternation we feel following such a cowardly desecration is only compounded by the fact that this is not an isolated incident. There have been several such acts of desecration in Greece this year alone. We will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki and in Greece to fight combat racism, anti-Semitism and hatred under difficult circumstances.
"Just last week, Greece was one of 22 nations to co-sponsor a joint statement to the UN Human Rights Council denouncing anti-Semitism, at the initiative of the WJC. We urge Greece to follow through on its commitment to combating anti-Semitism, and treat these incidents with utmost severity, concern, and action. Such vile hatred must not be allowed to prevail."
Greek General Secretary of Religious Affairs George Kalantzis issued a statement in which he condemned the desecration of the monument as “an act which is part of the Nazi tradition and ideology”. |
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Wednesday, 11 July 2018 10:52 |
“You're stepping on sacred ground.
You're stepping on what is left of the largest necropolis of the East.
You're stepping on the place where the Jews of Thessaloniki were buried for centuries.
Strong spirits and kind souls of the most vibrant community of the Mediterranean, found here their final resting place.
Their graves stretched up high on the hills.
Until 1943 when the forces of evil crushed all human substance; but people were not enough. They wanted to eradicate the memory too.
And as they were sending the living to their death, they were shattering the tombs of the dead and scattering their bones.
Those buried here died for a second time”.
[Excerpt from the inscription on the Monument]
  Yesterday, July 10, 2018, vandals desecrated with paint the Jewish Monument in the campus of the Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki, in the Observatory Park. They are disturbed even by the above words inscribed next to the remnants of the tombstones that survived the rage of the Nazis and their local collaborators. They have no moral scruples. They respect neither the living nor the dead.
The University was built upon the shattered tombs and the scattered bones of our forefathers of Thessaloniki, while the Jews of Thessaloniki where confined into ghettos pending deportation. It took 72 years for the city to assume responsibility and pay tribute to the memory of the Jewish necropolis with the erection of this monument in 2014. Today, the memory of the Jews of Thessaloniki, along with the history and the culture of the city, are struck once more, by the preachers of hatred.
There remain no other words to describe the sorrow of the Greek Jews: Shame – Shame – Shame.
Athens July 11, 2018
Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece
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