For half a millennium until the Holocaust, the cosmopolitan city of Thessaloniki, Greece, had a unique claim to fame: it was Europe’s only major city with a Jewish majority. But the golden age of ...

Located centrally within the park, near the future "memory square" and adjacent to the building that will host the metro ...

Spring is an ideal time for family outings in Thessaloniki, as the city offers a wide range of activities that combine play, learning, and creativity. For visitors and residents a ...

The Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki – MOMus was born from the merger of four Thessaloniki-based museums/art venues (the State Museum of Contemporary Art, the ...

The two presidents visited the new museum, which is still under construction, in the city that saw almost its entire Jewish community deported to death camps during World War II. Chairman of the ...

(JTA) — THESSALONIKI, Greece — Fronting the Mediterranean Sea in this bustling Greek port stands a haunting monument to the city’s roughly 50,000 Jews who were rounded up by the Nazis in 1943 and ...

More than just crucibles of antiquity, Athens and Thessaloniki are also a key destination for contemporary art lovers thanks to world-class venues, creative communities and internationally acclaimed ...

“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 ...