The Jews of Zakynthos, Greece's Ionian island, owe their survival during the dark days of the German occupation to two brave ...

The Holocaust of the Greek Jews was the darkest episode of the Nazi occupation of the country, as over 59,000 Greek Jews were ...

The Claims Conference will significantly increase its aid to Greece’s Jewish community in light of the country’s economic crisis and the recent rise of a neo-Nazi party. The Conference on Jewish ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greece’s biggest Jewish community said Monday it has taken Germany to Europe’s top human rights court, seeking the return of a huge ransom paid to Nazi occupiers more than ...

School textbooks in Greece provide extensive and respectful coverage of Judaism, Jewish traditions and the Holocaust, according to a new report by The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural ...

I learned a lesson when conducting research for my book, “Family Papers: a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century.” I had discovered the story of a young Jewish man forgotten to history until ...

On January 27, 2025, the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi concentration and extermination camp where over a million people, predominantly Jews, ...

“The memory of this once-vibrant Greek Jewish community must never be erased,” said Stan Polovets, cofounder of the Genesis Prize, which is helping fund the museum. For half a millennium until the ...

The World Jewish Congress joined the Greek Jewish community in urging the Greek government to implement an anti-racism bill in the face of rising hate crimes. On Tuesday, two junior members of ...

When we see the Christians beginning to spread out beyond the original homeland environment, they're following a pathway that had already been well trod before them by other Jews. By the middle of the ...