Tag Archives: Holocaust

#EstaSemanaEnLaHistoriaSefaradi: El 24 de julio de 1944, los nazis deportaron a casi 2.000 judíos de las islas de Rodas y Cos. La Comunidad Judía fue arrestada y deportada al campo de concentración de Auschwitz, donde fueron masacrados 1.522. En lo que se conoció como “el viaje más largo”, los judíos …

#EstaSemanaEnLaHistoriaSefaradi: Hoy se cumplen 81 años del Sábado Negro, donde 9.000 hombres judíos en #Salonika fueron obligados a reunirse en una plaza pública y fueron humillados bajo el sol abrasador y públicamente deshumanizados en 1942. Unos 2.000 hombres judíos fueron arrestados ese día y fueron enviados a campos de trabajos …

Salónica perdió el 94 % de su población judía en el Holocausto. Moshe Ha Elion, sobreviviente del holocausto, escritor y traductor, falleció el 1 de noviembre, a los 97 años, informó eSefarad. Moshe era de Salónica, Grecia, y se hizo conocido internacionalmente por documentar el sufrimiento de los judíos de Salónica …

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.  

Bourla’s parents were of 2,000 survivors from a community of 50,000 nearly eradicated by the Holocaust in Thessaloniki, Greece where he was born. Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla joined the Sephardic Heritage International on January 28th for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, where he shared his Greek Sephardic family’s story of …

Jews from Macedonia who were rounded up and assembled in the Tobacco Monopoly transit camp, before deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp, in Skopje, Macedonia, March 1943. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Jewish community in the Balkan state of North Macedonia has published an open letter to the …

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 …

ONE LESSON WE CAN LEARN FROM OUR ENEMIES Today is Yom haShoa. The day in which we remember the brutal extermination of 6 million Jews at the hands of the Nazi murderers and their collaborators. Last night I gave a class about the effect the Shoah had on the Sephardic …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Documentary about little-known heroism screens. Between 1941 and 1944, a group of Turkish diplomats helped hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of European Jews escape near certain death at the hands of the Nazis. It is one of the lesser-known stories of Holocaust rescue. But 70 years after the fact, details of …