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ISAAC M. BEZA COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS This collection is a family inheritance of the family of Mr. Joseph Florentin, discovered in the home of his grandmother when she passed away in 2002. Recently, he kindly donated it to the JMG. It consists of 318 postcards, sent mainly by Isaac M....

On Tuesday December 13, 2022, the Museum was visited by his Excellency Noam Katz, the new Ambassador of Israel in Greece, accompanied by the Deputy Head of Mission, Tsach Saar. The distinguished guests were welcomed by the President of the BoD of the JMG,  Samuel (Makis)  Matsas and the...

The Jewish Museum of Greece wishes you Happy Hannukah

The Mayor of Auschwitz, Janusz Chwierut and the Head of Learning at the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation Maciek Zabierowski visited the Jewish Museum of Greece on November 30, 2022. Mr. Chwierut and Mr. Zabierowski were welcomed by the Head of Holocaust Education at JMG, Dr. Alexandra Patrikiou. They were...

The fourth and final newsletter of the Hannah project is published. Since the beginning of 2021, the Jewish Museum of Greece participates at the two-year european project entitled REC “HANNAH: cHallenging And debuNkiNg Antisemitic MytHs (HANNAH)”, which aims to promote Jewish history, strengthen the memory of the Shoah and combat anti-Semitism in Germany,...

Within the framework of HANNAH – Challenging and Debunking Antisemitic Myths, the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow-Poland and the Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens opened the exhibition “Glimpses into Antisemitism”. The exhibition includes short biographies and quotes from oral testimonies of representatives of Jewish communities from Germany, Greece,...

The Jewish Museum of Greece on Wednesday 9 November 2022 will be open between 10:00 - 13:30 due to the general strike.

On November 9, 1938, a two-day pogrom began during which the Nazis burned more than 1,400 synagogues and Jewish institutions in Germany and Austria on ‘Kristallnacht’ (The Night of Broken Glass), a critical moment in the chain of events that led to the Holocaust. On November 9, 2022, the International...

The Jewish Museum of Greece wishes you Happy New Year