Thursday, February 25, 2020, 6:00 p.m.
As Delivered
Καλησπέρα everybody! Let me start, President Saltiel, my friend David, Mayor Elisaf, guests, friends, let me say what a huge honor it is for me to join you for the 15th Annual David Tiano Lecture, which our Consulate has organized over many years to honor the memory of our former colleague.
I really miss doing this event live in Thessaloniki this year, but I want to thank Liz and the Consulate team for bringing us together in this virtual setting. I also want to say a huge thank you to our honored guest speakers: my friend Zanet Battinou, Professor Cohen, and especially Ioannina Mayor Moses Elisaf for doing us the honor of joining us to speak about the Romaniote community of Ioannina.
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Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki “is moving forward”
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Greece’s second-largest city, Thessaloniki, is planning to build a Holocaust museum to honour some 46,000 Jewish residents deported and killed at German Nazi death camps during World War II.
On Monday, the Regional Governor of Central Macedonia Apostolos Tzitzikostas, Mayor Konstantinos Zervos and the president of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, David Saltiel, met to discuss the progress of the project.
“The Holocaust Museum is moving forward and we are jointly exploring the possibilities of financing and the contribution of the Region of Central Macedonia with European resources from the new National Strategic Reference Framework,” said Tzitzikostas.
US Ambassador Pyatt on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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The US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt issued a statement marking the 16th International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
Seventy-six years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Greece remembers the victims of the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust, including tens of thousands of Greek Jews who were victim to the horrific brutality.
The U.S. Consulate joins the City ofThessaloniki and the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki in paying tribute to the…
Read Pyatt’s Statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day here:
On the 16th International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the United States will pay tribute to the six million Jews and millions of others murdered by the Nazi regime. We also honor those who survived the Holocaust, while acknowledging the scars that many surv