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Tuesday, 27 March 2018 12:35 |
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.jpg) The Municipality of Arta, a city in North-western Greece, on the occasion of the 74 years since the arrest and deportation (March 24th, 1944) of 480 members of the local Jewish Community by the Nazis, organized for second consecutive year a series of events dedicated to their memory. Only 30 Jews survived the Holocaust.
In his speech the Mayor of Arta Mr Christos Tsirogiannis mentioned that “the Community’s historical memory is kept unchanged and the descendants of its members, many of whom are here among us, still keep ties with the homeland of their ancestors. It is a journey through time from which we learn our city’s history. This gives us strength for the future”. The Mayor of Arta also thanked the representatives of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece and the Greek Jewish Communities for participating in the events, as well as the “Skoufas” Cultural Association for hosting the main event and all those who attended the events.
 The events begun on Saturday morning with a tour at the former Jewish quarter of Arta and in the evening the main event took place at the Cultural Center of “Skoufas” Association with the presentation of the history of the former Jewish Community of Arta by the lawyer – graphologist and researcher Theocharis Vadivoulis. During the main event addresses were delivered held by the Minister of Administrative Reform Mrs Olga Gerovasili, the Vice-President of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece Mr Viktor Eliezer, the President of “Skoufas” Mr Nikolaos Bantaloukas, the Secretary General of the Athens Jewish Community Mr Joseph Mizan and the author Mr Dimitris Vlachopanos author of the book “ISAAK MIZAN – ARM NUMBER 182641”.
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Thursday, 22 March 2018 11:02 |
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   The presentation of Rabbi Isaac Mizan's new book, the Greek edition of "Shulchan Aruch - Guide to Law Implementation according to Sephardic Tradition" took place on March 5, 2018, in the crowded hall of the Benaki Museum Amphitheatre, in Athens. The book presentation was organized by the General Secretarial for Religious Affairs of the Greek Ministry of Education and the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS).
In his address, G. Kalantzis, General Secretary of Religious Affairs, referred to the importance the state attaches to the promotion of humanitarian values and the dialogue between religions, but also to the programmes of the Ministry of Education which are focused on combating anti-Semitism.
In the same spirit, D. Saltiel, President of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, referring to the work of Rabbi Mizan and the value of the Greek version of Shulchan Aruch, stressed the crucial role of religions in the creation of a spirit of mutual understanding and mutual respect.
Rabbi Elias Sabetai, from Larissa, - also the birthplace of Rabbi Mizan - and author of books on Judaism, spoke of the essence of religious teachings in the spiritual guidance of man.
On a personal tone, Samuel Matsas, President of the Jewish Museum of Greece, talked about how he and his family built their religious identity’s consciousness, on the teachings of Rabbi Mizan.
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Wednesday, 21 March 2018 13:53 |
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The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece expresses the profound sorrow of the Greek Jewry for the death of three Israelis murdered over the past week-end. A father of four children was stabbed in Jerusalem and two young soldiers were the victims of a car-ramming attack in the West Bank.
The new wave of terrorism launched by extremist Palestinian organizations against Israel undermines every peace initiative in the region and triggers hatred and fanaticism once more. At last, it needs to be understood that terrorism will not bring peace. Terrorism causes unbearable pain and jeopardizes the atmosphere of trust that must prevail between the two people in order to achieve the longing peace.
The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece conveys its most sincere condolences to the families of the victims and the people of Israel.
Athens, March 21, 2018
Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece
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Tuesday, 20 March 2018 10:35 |
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By MARINA RAFENBERG and SAKIS MITROLIDIS
“The voices of 50,000 deported Thessaloniki Jews must not be forgotten. It is time for Greece to delve back into its memory.” Those are the heartfelt words of David Saltiel, president of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community, which today numbers barely a thousand, three-quarters of a century after it was nearly wiped out by the Nazis.
Sunday saw residents gather at the city’s old railway station in memory of the first of 19 convoys of Jewish residents deported to Auschwitz under Nazi occupation.
Thessaloniki had a population of more than 50,000 Jews before World War II, some 46,000 of whom were deported and killed at German Nazi death camps.
Before the deportations started 75 years ago this week, the community in the city, which was mainly Sephardic Jews chased out of Spain in 1492, had developed to the point where it earned the nickname the “Jerusalem of the Balkans.” But then came the horrors of 1943, when virtually all of the town’s Jews were deported, just four percent of them surviving the Nazi death camps to which they were dispatched.
Over the past five years, Thessaloniki has held commemorations in mid-March, instigated by mayor Yannis Boutaris to remember the first of the convoys of Jews rounded up and sent off to the camps from Thessaloniki’s railway station on March 15, 1943. In January, Boutaris said the Greek authorities had been deeply remiss in waiting so long to officially commemorate the Jews’ fate.
He asked, “Who has mourned neighbors who disappeared? What monuments did we erect? What ceremonies did we celebrate?”.
He also denounced the looting of the belongings left behind by deportees.
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Tuesday, 06 February 2018 09:49 |
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Joining the international Jewish campaign of protest against the Polish bill that criminalizes references on the role of Poland with regard to the Holocaust, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece addressed the following letter to the Polish President through the Ambassador of Poland to Greece, Ms Anna Barbarzak:
On behalf of the Greek Jewry, we would like to express our deep concern and distress on Poland’s proposed new Holocaust law which would criminalize suggestions regarding Poland’s role in Nazi crimes.
The Greek Jewry, in honor of the memory of the six million Jews exterminated by the Nazis and in the name of the 77.377 Greek Jews who perished in the Holocaust, strongly protests against this proposalwhich restricts the historic research and testimonies on the role of the Polish authorities during the darkest period of the world history.
It is our wishful belief that the President of Poland would reconsider his decision to sign such a bill.
We kindly ask you to inform the competent authorities in your county of our strong protest and we thank you for your intermediation.
Sincerely Yours,
The President DAVID SALTIEL
The Secretary General MOISIS ELISAF |
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