Unveiling Athens Holocaust Memorial
Athens first Holocaust Memorial was unveiled on May 10. For more videos visit
OMILIA BETTY HALEGOUA HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY-Athens, Greece-May, 8th, 2011
OMILIA BETTY HALEGOUA HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY-Athens, Greece-May, 8th, 2011
Drama Greece Holocaust Memorial
A little known memorial, isolated in a village park.
Jewish Tombstones Destroyed at Athens cemetery
Vandals desecrated the Jewish section of an Athens cemetery, destroying nine marble memorial stones. The President of the Jewish Community in Athens, Minos Moissis described the scene as “repulsive.” Police are investigating the incident and the community plans on taking legal action . There have been a number of incidents of vandalism against Jewish sites in Greece in recent years. In April 2018, two Holocaust memorials were vandalized in separate incidents. There are approximately 4,500 Jews living in Greece today; centered predominantly in the cities of Athens and Thessaloniki. The uptick in violence against Jewish sites in recent years has coincided with the rise in prominence of the far-right fascist Golden Dawn Party. The Jewish community of Athens is organizing a silent protest at the cemetery this Sunday, May 13th at noon. Stand with the Jews of Greece.
Hommage to the Jewish Holocaust ( Making of ) - Athens, 19.1.2015
Sonia Theodoridou with
The Moldavian Choir of Athens, Childrens Choir of the Kodaly Conservatoire of Athens.
Orchestra Mobile conducted by Theodoros Orfanidis.
Greek Holocaust memorial vandalized for second time in 2 weeks
Greek Holocaust memorial vandalized for second time in 2 weeks
(JTA) — A Holocaust memorial was vandalized in the Greek city of Thessaloniki for the second time in two weeks. In Tuesday’s incident, the monument on the campus of Aristotle University was smeared in blue paint and had a cross painted on it. Unveiled in 2014, the monument commemorates the city’s historic Jewish cemetery, on which the university is built, and is dedicated in memory of the Jewish students who were killed in Nazi death camps. The university had the paint cleaned off the monument —...
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Memorial service for the Jews of Greece of the Holocaust.
Holocaust Survivor Leon Calderon - Return to Salonica
Leon Calderon was born in 1926 in Salonica, Greece. When the Germans occupied Salonica, the majority of the Jews were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Leon’s parents and four siblings were murdered there. Leon survived several concentration camps and was liberated by the American army in April 1945. In this excerpt, he describes how he returned to Greece after the liberation. Source: MHM, 2017
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Leon Calderon est né en 1926 à Salonique, en Grèce. Lorsque les Allemands occupent Salonique, la majorité des Juifs sont déportés vers Auschwitz-Birkenau. Les parents de Léon, ses trois frères et sa sœur sont assassinés là-bas. Leon survit à plusieurs camps de concentration et il est libéré par l'armée américaine en avril 1945. Dans cet extrait, il décrit comment il retourne en Grèce après la libération. Source : MHM, 2017
Tennessee State Capitol
The Tennessee State Capitol, located in Nashville, is the seat of government for the U.S. state of Tennessee, serving as home of the Tennessee General Assembly and the location of the governor's office. Designed by architect William Strickland (1788–1854) of Philadelphia and Nashville, it was built between 1845 and 1859 and is one of Nashville's most prominent examples of Greek Revival architecture. The building, one of 12 state capitols that does not have a dome, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and named a National Historic Landmark in 1971.
The prominent Nashville hilltop site of what is now the Tennessee State Capitol was formerly occupied by the Holy Rosary Cathedral (no longer extant), the first Roman Catholic cathedral church in Nashville (with the Diocese of Nashville at that time once comprising the entire territory of the State of Tennessee).
The State Capitol was designed by renowned Philadelphia architect William Strickland, who modeled it after a Greek Ionic temple. The prominent lantern structure located above the roof line of the Tennessee state capitol is a design based upon the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens that honors the Greek god Dionysus doing battle with Tyrrhenian pirates. The cornerstone of the Tennessee state capitol was itself laid on July 4, 1845 and the building was completed fourteen years later in 1859.
The American Society of Civil Engineers has listed the building as a civil engineering landmark in recognition of its innovative construction, which made unusually extensive use of stone and was an early example of the use of structural iron. Both the interior and exterior are built with limestone from a quarry about 1-mile (1.6 km) from the site. Some interior columns were built from single pieces of stone, requiring massive wooden derricks to hoist them into place. Wrought iron, instead of wood, was used for the roof trusses to reduce the building's vulnerability to fire.
Commercial, convict, and slave labor were used in the project. Fifteen enslaved Black men worked on carving the Capitol's limestone cellar from 1845 to 1847; Nashville stonemason A.G. Payne was paid $18 a month for their labor. It is believed to be the most significant project where the state government rented slave labor.
Strickland died five years before the building's completion and was entombed in its northeast wall. His son, F. W. Strickland, supervised completion of the structure. William Strickland also designed the St. Mary's Cathedral (located along the base of the capitol hill), as well as Downtown Presbyterian church located just a few blocks away from the state capitol.
Samuel Dold Morgan (1798–1880), chairman of the State Building Commission overseeing the construction of the Tennessee State Capitol, is entombed in the southeast corner near the south entrance.
Monuments on the Capitol grounds include statues of two of the three Tennessee residents who served as President of the United States: Andrew Jackson by Clark Mills and Andrew Johnson by Jim Gray. The second President from Tennessee, James K. Polk, is buried in a tomb on the grounds, together with his wife, Sarah Childress Polk. Other monuments on the grounds include the Sgt. Alvin C. York Memorial by Felix de Weldon, the Tennessee Holocaust Commission Memorial, the Sam Davis Memorial at the southwest corner of the Capitol grounds, the Sen. Edward Ward Carmack Memorial located above the Motlow Tunnel near the south entrance, and the Memorial to Africans during the Middle Passage at the southwest corner of Capitol grounds. The Charles Warterfield Reliquary is a group of broken limestone columns and fragments removed and saved from the State Capitol during the mid-1950s restoration, located near the northern belvedere on Capitol Drive.
The building has housed a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest thanks to Democratic state senator Douglas Henry since 1978. The presence of the bust has been controversial since its dedication. Legislation was proposed in 2017 towards moving it to the Tennessee State Museum.
Outrageous Demand To Remove Jewish Star From Greek Holocaust Memorial Reprehensible
B’nai B’rith International deplores a demand by Greek officials to remove of a Star of David from a Holocaust memorial on the eve of its opening.
The stunning demand by the mayor and city council of Kavala, Greece, to remove the very symbol that was used to separate Jews from the rest of the community during the Holocaust is beyond insensitive. This is an attempt to erase history.
Inside Jewish Greece
This video is about Inside Jewish Greece and contains testimonials from young adult leaders in the Athens Jewish Community
Greek Jewish survivor of the holocaust
Romaniote Jewish man from Athens and Volos Greece
Holocaust Remembrance Day 2011
Boston 3G Commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day 2011
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Greek PM Tsipras to Visit Germany's Holocaust Memorial
Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will visit Germany's Holocaust memorial on Tuesday on the second day of his visit to the country that his radical leftist government has demanded pay World War Two reparations. The announcement of the visit to the Berlin memorial to Jews murdered by the Nazi regime, an unusual move for a foreign leader, came after Tsipras told a news conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel that his government's call for reparations from Germany is mainly a moral demand. When asked about his government's call for reparations that Germany has rejected, Tsipras told reporters, We aren't linking it to the current discussion on the European crisis and Greece's position in the euro zone, and the need to quickly find a solution to move forward.
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Oy to Them! Jewish Greek from 1st Century Hellenistic Synagogue
Atenista Walk Round Jewish Athens
The Atenistas City group choses walks around parts of Athens that we might not discover ourselves. This is a great idea, as it brings a (much needed!) greater appreciation of the city. This walk was all about Jewish Athens and ended up in Athens only kosher restaurant, Gostijo. For videos on Athens visit
New Photo Exhibit Examines the Jewish Communities of Greece and the Holocaust
Chris Collora reports on a new special exhibit at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County which tells the little known story of the Jewish communities of Greece and the impact of the Holocaust.
O Mis Ermanos (Dirge in Ladino), for 9th of Av
While Holocaust is remembered by the secular world on Holocaust Memorial Day, the 9th of Av is the day when Jews traditionally mourn the tragedies of our history, including the Spanish Inquisition and Holocaust. Many are not aware that, besides the decimation of Ashkenazi Jewry in Europe, the great majority of European Sephardic Jewry were utterly wiped out by the Nazis. The chief center of the Sephardic Diaspora until that time was Greece, Thessaloniki in particular. Members of my own extended family flourished there. Then, in World War II, over 90% of the community was put on trains to Auschwitz and exterminated.
The following is a dirge in Ladino, Judeo-Spanish, remembering the massacred community and honoring the partisans and a single survivor of the courageous Auschwitz Uprising. It was written by a Sephardic poetess from the community, Jennie Adato Tarabulus, and the music by Judy Frankel of blessed memory.
O Mis Ermanos
Komo se fueron, komo se fueron,
O mis ermanos, ermanos en Grecia.
De Salonika i de Lárisa
I de Kavála, de Xanthi
I Rhodos, i de Atena.
I de la Drama, i Komotini
I de las islas
I de las islas de Grecia.
Si ya sabemos komo guerrearon
Komo partisanes en Macedonia,
I ya oimos del uniko ke kedo bivo
En la korajosa revolta de Auschwitz '44.
O mis ermanos, solos muriendo
En tyera ajena, una muerte kruela
No vos olvido, no vos olvido
Tus korason es son kon nosotros
Siempre por siempre
En tyera santa, la tyera santa
Yerushalayim
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How they died, how they died
O my brethren, brethren in Greece.
From Thessaloniki and from Larisa,
and from Kavála, from Xanthi,
and Rhodes, and from Athens,
and from Drama, and Komotini,
and from the islands
the islands of Greece.
Yes, we know how they fought
as partisans in Macedonia,
And we've heard from the sole survivor
in the courageous Auschwitz revolt in '44.
O my brethren, dying alone
In a distant land, a cruel death
We won't forget you, we won't forget you
Your hearts are with us
Forever and ever
In a Holy Land, the Holy Land
Jerusalem
UK's Prince William visits Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial
(26 Jun 2018) UK'S PRINCE WILLIAM VISITS YAD VASHEM HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
Britain's Prince William started his tour of Israel with a visit to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial on Tuesday (26 JUNE 2018).
The Duke met two survivors who escaped Nazi Germany for the safety of Britain.
The memorial recognises Prince William's great-grandmother, Princess Alice, as part of the Righteous Among the Nations for her role in rescuing Jews during the Holocaust.
William arrived Monday night in the first-ever official visit by a member of the British royal family to the tumultuous region London once ruled.
In a private 1994 visit to Yad Vashem, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, planted a tree there in his mother's honour.
Princess Alice hid three members of the Cohen family in her palace in Athens during the Nazi occupation of Greece in World War II.
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Jewish community is worried about far-right''''''''s strong gains in elections
(7 May 2012) 1. Close of yellow Star of David and identification document on display in Jewish Museum, Athens
2. Close-up of rim of Star of David showing faded number
3. Close-up of image of woman and girl who perished in Holocaust
4. Close-up of image of girl who perished
5. Wide of Star of David on wall next to a Nazi-era map showing locations of concentration camps
6. Close of sign reading, (English) The Holocaust of the Greek Jewry, Monuments and Histories.
7. Pan right of display showing Jewish traditional clothing and insignia
8. Close of title reading, (English): The Jews of Greece
9. Wide of menorah next to photos of Jewish couple
10. Close of Star of David decorated with precious stones
11. Various of Benjamin Albalas, head of Jewish community in Athens
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Benjamin Albalas, head of Jewish community in Athens:
We the Jewish of Greece, we are very disappointed with the results of the national elections. We are also very concerned really speaking that the neo-Nazi far right party was, will be, a member of the Greek parliament in Athens where democracy was born.
13. Cutaway of Albalas
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Benjamin Albalas, head of Jewish community in Athens:
We believe that the other, the democratic forces will shield the Jews, and not only but other minorities from things that will be outside of the law.
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15. Various of headquarters of Golden Dawn party in Athens
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The leader of the Jewish community in Athens expressed concern on Monday over the electoral rise of the Greek neo-Nazi party, saying it threatened the well-being of the Jewish community and other minorities.
Benjamin Albalas said the Jewish community was very disappointed with the weekend vote and urged political forces in Greece to protect the country's Jews in the face of growing threats from the Golden Dawn party, a nationalist grouping that won close to 7 percent of votes in the general election.
Albalas said he was concerned that Golden Dawn will be a parliamentary partner in the country where democracy was born.
Golden Dawn, which rejects the neo-Nazi label and insists it is nationalist and patriotic, accrued 6.97 percent of the vote, a stunning improvement from 0.29 percent in 2009.
The party, which now has 21 seats in the Greek parliament, has been blamed for violent attacks on immigrants and ran on an anti-immigrant platform, vowing to clean up Greece.
It has also called for land mines to be planted along the borders.
Their supporters sport Nazi-like insignia, wear black clothes and shave their heads.
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