Saloniki

Thessaloniki breaks ground on new Holocaust museum

The 9,000-square-foot museum occupying eight floors in an octagon-shaped structure will be located at the site of Thessaloniki’s Old Railway Station.

 Genesis Prize Foundation Chairman Stan Polovets, left, with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the groundbreaking for the Holocaust Museum of Greece in Thessaloniki, Oct. 29, 2024.
 ARCH OF Galerius.

Salonika – Echoes from the Jewish past

 Israeli movie receives award at Thessaloniki Film Festival

80 years later, Thessaloniki’s documentary film festival to pay tribute to deported Jews

Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century

The story of Jewish Salonica


Greek Jewry and the Holocaust

Before World War II, approximately 80,000 Jews lived in Greece in 31 different communities. By war’s end, only 10,000 Jews survived.

INVASTION OF German army into Greece.