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Greece

Ceremonial finials
Posted inWorld

Poland returns 91 Jewish objects to Greece, decades after they were stolen by the Nazis

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov March 4, 2026March 4, 2026

(JTA) — A trove of sacred Jewish objects from Greece that was stolen by the Nazis and displaced for decades in Poland is finally heading back home.  Poland returned 91 […]

Holocaust memorial in Greece
Posted inWorld

How Armenian and Jewish history is bound together in Thessaloniki

by Larry Luxner September 26, 2025September 26, 2025
an impressionistic painting of people strolling through a town square
Posted inOff the Shelf

‘One Hundred Saturdays’: A survivor’s moving evocation of Rhodes’ prewar Sephardic community

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman October 6, 2022October 6, 2022
Esther Cohen is flanked by her husband Samuel (left) and German President Joachim Gauck in Ioannina, Greece, March 7, 2014. (Photo/JTA-Wolfgang Kumm-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

6 of Europe’s most prominent Holocaust survivors have died over the past month

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA December 3, 2020December 3, 2020
a huge pile of life jackets on a beach -- a goat stands nearby
Posted inLocal Voice

What I learned in the second-largest refugee camp in Greece

Lily Greenberg Call by Lily Greenberg Call November 29, 2017November 29, 2017
A Jewish tombstone built into the side of a building in Thessaloniki, Greece (Photo/Zack Bodner)
Posted inFirst Person, Local Voice, Opinion

Repurposed or repugnant? Old Jewish tombstones find new life in Greek city

Zack Bodner by Zack Bodner July 6, 2017July 6, 2017
all four stand on a beach surveying the scene, mounds of life preservers behind them
Posted inLocal Voice, Opinion

How we, a Muslim and a Jew, bonded on our mission to Greece

Rabbi Jacqueline Mates-MuchinAbbas Moloo by Rabbi Jacqueline Mates-Muchin and Abbas Moloo May 23, 2017May 24, 2017

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