Tag Archives: Holocaust

International Sephardic Yom HaShoah Commemoration

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Join us for a special international commemoration of the Sephardic & Romaniote victims of the Holocaust in Europe. Program will include special testimonies, speakers, music performance, virtual candle lighting, and a memorial prayer in Hebrew, Ladino, Greek, and English in honor of all those who perished.  

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International Rhodes/Cos Holocaust Memorial – Save the date August 16, 2020

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The Rhodes/Cos Memorial Committee of Seattle Presents Holocaust Remembrance «Before Sleep» A piano recital by Renan Koen Renan Koen, a renowned Turkish-Jewish pianist, vocalist, and educator, will be playing select pieces from her album, “Holocaust Remembrance / ‘Before Sleep’” – works by Jewish composers interned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp …

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The Holocaust of Greek Jews

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Once thriving communities in several Greek cities, about 59,000 Greek Jews were victims of the Holocaust or 83 percent of the total number living in Greece at the time of World War II and the German Occupation. Thessaloniki was the cultural hub for Sephardic Jews who had been expelled from Spain in 1492. The …

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New Holocaust museum to be built in Thessaloniki

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Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin took part in a foundation ceremony at the site that will honour the Greek Jews from Thessaloniki who were exterminated during World War II (L-R) Israeli president Reuven Rivlin and Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras at the foundation ceremony of the museum on Tuesday. Photo: Fox …

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Thread of Memory: Jews of Veria Holocaust remembrance events

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As part of last month’s Holocaust Memorial in Veria, Central Macedonia, an estimated 2000 people attended The Thread of Memory, in memory of the 460 members of Veria’s Jewish Community who perished in the Nazi Death Camps. The Thread of Memory was a three-day program of events culminated with an …

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