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The Crocus Project was launched in Ireland in 2005 by HETI. It is intended for pupils aged 11 years and over. HETI provides schools with yellow crocus bulbs to plant in autumn in memory of the one and a half million Jewish children and thousands of other children who died...

BRIEF NOTE ON THE EDUCATIONAL TRIP BY GREEK PUPILS TO THE AUSCHWITZ MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM (22-24 June & 27-29 June 2016) INTRODUCTION In 2013, at the initiative of the General Secretariat of Religious Affairs of the Ministry of Education and its Secretary General, Mr. Giorgos Kalantzis, the Jewish Museum of Greece (JMG) began a...

Sixty-eight items from the collection of the Jewish Museum of Greece were characterised as monuments by the Central Council of Recent Monuments. They are items which witnessed the presence of one of Europe’s oldest Jewish communities in Greece. The characterisation came following a request made by the Jewish Museum. The aim of...

On Sunday 22nd May 2016, the travelling version of the exhibition "Synagonistis: Greek Jews in the National Resistance" was inaugurated at the Museum of National Resistance in Koryschades, Karpenisi. The exhibition was realized within the framework of a mutual program of co-operation with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in...

The team of the Jewish Museum of Greece celebtates the International Museum Day 2016.

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On Friday 22 April 2016, Mr. Rainer Höss, political activist and grandson of Auschwitz Commander, Rudolf Höss, visited the Jewish Museum of Greece. Mr.  Höss visits Athens as a speaker at the events in the “Talks and Thoughts” Cycle of Onassis’ Cultural Centre. Ms. C. Meri, Curator of the...

Announcement Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, is offering a seven day seminar for teachers from Greece. The seminar will be held in Englishand will be focusing on academic study of the Holocaust with the pedagogy of teaching about the Holocaust.The participants are expected to be present...

Teaching about the Holocaust in Patras, Greece The seventeenth educational seminar, run by the Jewish Museum of Greece and entitled ‘Teaching about the Holocaust in Greece’, was held at the Conventional Centre "Agora Argiri", 12 Agiou Andrea Str., on Thursday 31 March and Friday 1 April 2016. The seminar has been designed for...