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On Tuesday 21st April 2015, the travelling exhibition of the Jewish Museum of Greece, “SYNAGONISTIS: Greek Jews in the National Resistance” was successfully inaugurated in the Washington Hebrew Congregation, Washington DC,. The Greek Foreign Minister, Mr. N. Kotzias, attended the event together with more than 150 important guests. The exhibition, originating...

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 English and will be focusing on academic study of the Holocaust with the pedagogy of teaching about the Holocaust.The participants are expected to be...

"Anti Semitism & Racism: Yesterday & Today" For the commemoration of the National Day of Remembrance for Victims and Heroes of the Holocaust, set by the Greek Parliament on the 27th January every year, the Jewish Museum of Greece, offered for free, a series of activities and educational programs for families on Sunday 1st...

For the commemoration of the National Day of Remembrance for Victims and Heroes of the Holocaust, set by the Greek Parliament on the 27th January every year, the Jewish Museum of Greece, offered for free, a series of activities and educational programs for the visitors on Tuesday 27th January 2015. The tours were offered...

She was 27, married, and running a fur shop in the Greek city of Thessaloniki when she was deported to Auschwitz in April 1943. Lisa Pinhas (1916-1980) lost over 100 relatives in the Shoah. Her pledge to save her younger sister, Marie, and to be a witness if she...

For more information on the contest, please contact the Jewish Museum of Greece at at 210-3225582, or by e-mail at [email protected] 

For more information about the educational programs, kindly contact with Ms. Orietta Treveza: tel. +30-210-3225582,   e-mail: [email protected]

25 October 2010 - 21 January 2011 The JMG presents the exhibition "Sylvia. Auschwitz, Birkenau, Majdanek" Sylvia is a series of photographs shot in the spring of 2004 in Poland at the Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek concentration-camp sites. Sylvia is my maternal grandmother’s name, an Auschwitz inmate and survivor. Sylvia was...