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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...

Teaching about the Holocaust in Greece’  in Athens The sixteenth educational seminar run by the Jewish Museum of Greece and entitled ‘Teaching about the Holocaust in Greece’ was held at the Cervantes Institute, 23 Mitropoleos str., Syntagma on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 February 2016. The seminar had been designed for primary and secondary...

The Jewish Museum of Greece mourns the loss of Ellie Sakki – Dekastro, from Volos, who served as a Red Cross nurse from the Greek – Italian war until the end of the World War II. Initially, she offered her services in the Hadjiyorgis clinic, while later at the...

Press release Hidden Children in Occupied Greece On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 Jan), the Jewish Museum of Greece presented the temporary exhibition “Hidden Children in Occupied Greece”, on Monday 25th January 2016. September 2003 saw the opening of the exhibition “Hidden Children in Occupied Greece” at the Jewish Museum of...

On Tuesday 26th January 2016, the Minister of Defence of Israel, Mr. M. Yaalon, visited the Jewish Museum of Greece, while on an official visit in Greece. The president of the JMG BoD Mr. M. Matsas and the director of the Museum Ms. Z. Battinou welcomed the minister, who...

On Wednesday 20th January, the Cervantes Institute and the Jewish Museum of Greece, presented Artemis Alcalay’s exhibition of photographs, Greek Jews, Holocaust survivors, a visual narrative,  consisting of a series of photographs-portraits of Greek Jews survivors of Nazi concentration camps. These people, who have gone down in the history of the Second World...

REPORT ON THE FIFTEENTH SEMINAR FOR TEACHERS “TEACHING ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST IN GREECE” BY THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF GREECE THESSALONIKI, 3rd-4th DECEMBER 2015 INTRODUCTION On 3rd-4th December 2015 the scheduled educational seminar entitled “Teaching about the Holocaust in Greece”, conducted by the Jewish Museum of Greece, took place at the Thessaloniki History Centre. The seminar, which...