The series of reports “In the same city. Christians and Jews in Thessaloniki “ inaugurated on Sunday afternoon at the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, the Minister of Culture and Sports Lina Mendoni. As stressed in her speech Mr. Mendonithe Jewish Museum and its collections, will be at least the core of the collections of the Holocaust Museum Thessalonikiwhich the government aims to do as soon as possible.
“We want it to be housed not only in memory, but also in the very long history and cultural identity of the Jewish community, because we owe it to our homeland, to Greece, to Thessaloniki, but especially to the memory of all those who were lost, because “There were many who got on the train and never returned,” the minister said characteristically.
This series of exhibitions seeks the atmosphere of Thessaloniki in the late 19th and early 20th century through anecdotal photographs, documents and objects and includes three sections. In the first thematic cycle “Music, Theater, Culture through its archives Thessaloniki State Conservatory»Which was inaugurated at Jewish Museum, presents information on the individual, social and geographical identity of hundreds of Jewish families in Thessaloniki, covering a period of 28 years (1915-1943), the period between the founding of the Conservatory and the deportation of Jews from Thessaloniki. “A second cycle will follow, with the theme” education and sports “which will be hosted in May in the philanthropic fraternity of Thessaloniki and a third with the theme” institutions and operation of communities, trade, entrepreneurship, publications, press, personalities of Thessaloniki “which will take place in October at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki “, said the president of the Central Israeli Council and the Israeli Community of Thessaloniki, David Saltiel.
The series of exhibitions is co-organized by the Israeli Community of Thessaloniki, the Aristotle University of Thessalonikithe Georgios Konstantinidis Archive and the Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy. The report was prepared by Jewish Museum of Thessalonikithe file Georgiou Konstantinidis and the Chair of Jewish Studies AUTh, with his kind support Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Thessaloniki and Thessaloniki State Conservatory.
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