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Tuesday, 05 January 2021 13:05 |
 The Holocaust monument of Drama was vandalized on the night of the 28th to the 29th of December 2020, with graffiti made by fanatic vandals who sprayed religious symbols on the upper façade of the monument and broke a part of its marble base.Similar graffiti was also sprayed at the nearby tobacco warehouse of Drama where, on March 3, 1943, the Bulgarian occupying forces arrested and imprisoned the Jews of the city before deporting them to the Nazi extermination camps.
The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS), in its letter addressed to the Police Department of Drama, called for the arrest of the perpetrators, while in another letter addressed to the Municipality of Drama, KIS asked for the restoration of the damages caused to the Monument and the condemnation of the vandalism which offends the city's history and culture.
The Greek Jewry with repulsion and sorrow strongly condemns the continuation of anti-Semitic attacks that derive from any kind of fanaticism and encourage intolerance.
We wish the New Year to be a year of peace and prosperity, in which such phenomena will permanently and irrevocably stop.
Athens, December 30, 2020
Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece
Relevant:
VANDALISM OF THE HOLOCAUST MONUMENT OF DRAMA – REACTIONS AND RESTORATION |
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Friday, 04 December 2020 14:48 |
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  Religious fanaticism and bigotry emanate from the new desecration attacks against Jewish sacred sites in Larissa that occurred on December 3rd, 2020. The vandals used religious symbols to leave the mark of their anti-Semitic hatred on the exterior surrounding wall of the Synagogue of Larissa and the city’s Holocaust Monument, as a statement of contempt towards the sanctity of the sites and devastation of the memory of the Holocaust victims.
The Greek Jewry strongly condemns these hideous attacks. We urge the competent authorities to trace down the perpetrators, arrest them and bring them to justice.
We quote the Vice President of the European Commission Margaritis Schinas who just a couple of days ago stated: “Europe stands firm against all forms of anti-Semitism. Jewish life is and always will be part of European societies and our way of life…”
Zero tolerance to fanaticism, intolerance and anti-Semitism.
Athens, December 4th, 2020
CENTRAL BOARD OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN GREECE
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Tuesday, 20 October 2020 12:22 |
 A hideous graffiti, that last Friday, October 16, 2020, defaced the Holocaust Monument of Thessaloniki, was added to the chain of desecrations, threats and vandalism that occurred last week in Greece: “Juden raus” graffiti at the Jewish Cemetery of Athens, “Death to Israel” at the Jewish Cemetery of Thessaloniki, four vandalized tombs at the Jewish Cemetery of Rhodes, and this most recent “With Jews you lose” graffiti, spray-painted on the façade of the Monument dedicated to the 50.000 Jews of Thessaloniki who were exterminated during the Holocaust.
The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece condemns this new wave of vandal attacks, launched by the followers of bigotry and fanaticism as a statement of their presence in a period when the Greek State, the society and recently the Greek Justice have condemned the neo-Nazi groups as criminal organizations. We are not afraid of them!
Tolerating the vandalism of cemeteries and monuments equals tolerating the vandalism of memory and civilization; it represents the toleration of anti-Semitism. We urge the law enforcement authorities to do their utmost to apprehend the perpetrators and bring them to Justice. Let us not tolerate behaviors that aim at imposing obscurantism in our country.
Athens, October 19, 2020
Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece
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Tuesday, 20 October 2020 12:17 |
 .jpg) Last week, four tombstones of the Jewish Cemetery of Rhodes were vandalized.The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece sent a letter to the Minister of Citizen Protection, Michalis Chrysohoides, and called for the arrest of the perpetrators and the reinforcement of security measures on all Jewish institutions and monuments in Greece.
Athens, October 19, 2020
Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece
RELEVANT:
KIS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE ATTACKS AGAINST JEWISH SITES – GRAFFITI AT THE HOLOCAUST MONUMENT OF THESSALONIKI
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Tuesday, 20 October 2020 12:14 |
 The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece welcomes the historic verdict of the Greek Justice that delegitimizes the neo-Nazi organizations and at the same time fortifies Democracy in the country. Today’s court decision seals the truth of the matter: the magnitude of the danger the neonazi organizations represent while they exploit patriotism in order to disseminate hatred and promote obscurantism.
After the murder of Pavlos Fyssas, the violent attacks, the Nazi salutations in the Parliament, the Holocaust denial, the racist violence and the vandalism of Jewish sites, the Greek Jews express their satisfaction that the Greek Justice -following thorough and exhaustive consideration- defined the true face of the neo-Nazi organization. Nonetheless, we must not forget that in the past this organization had gained the trust of thousands of our compatriots and its leadership had seats in the Greek Parliament.
Having witnessed the horrors of Nazism, that counted 6 million victims of the Holocaust, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, since day one of their election, in 2012, had publicly stressed the dangers looming over Democracy and the need to combat the neo-Nazi organizations at all levels of public life.
Their delegitimization by the Greek Justice and their definition as “criminal organizations” does not mean that we let our guard down. On the contrary, it encourages the battle against Nazism so that the serpent’s egg will never be reborn in Greece.
Athens, October 7, 2020
Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece
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