(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu honored the Greek Jewish community lost during the Holocaust at the dedication of a site to build a Holocaust museum in Salonika. Netanyahu, who is in Greece for a tripartite summit with that country and Cyprus, attended the dedication with Greek Prime Minister …
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Thessaloniki’s new Holocaust museum a sign of a city finally embracing its Jewish past
Once called the Flower of the Balkans, Greek city to begin construction of a fitting memorial 74 years after Nazis destroyed the great Sephardic community When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the children of a Greek Jewish Holocaust survivor unveiled a plaque Thursday for the planned Thessaloniki Holocaust Memorial Museum, …
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