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Dear Friends, Since Monday 1 July 2024, the Jewish Museum of Greece has changed its opening hours. The opening hours are: Monday – Friday: 09:00 – 16:00 Saturday: closed Sunday: 10:00 – 16:00 We are waiting for you!

The Jewish Museum of Greece mourns the loss of an important lady, a Holocaust survivor who, with great passion and strength, visited Athens and participated in several training seminars for educators by JMG – TOLI and shared her experiences with them. We, who had the pleasure and honour to meet her in person, to listen

Celebrating Women’s Resilience & Art on International Women’s Day “Girl in red.” Flora Saltiel-Modiano, oil on canvas, Athens, 1999. © JMG Contemporary Art Collection. Young woman lying down, with the lower part of her body turned sideways. Her crossed legs, the orange-red color of her hair, the red and blue dress, and the pink socks,

The Jewish Museum of Greece participates in the global #WeRemember campaign for International Holocaust Remembrance Day – a small action that will have a big impact. Together, we will honour the past and protect the future.

Important testimony from the Oral History Archive This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Few witnesses remain alive to share their personal experiences of the relentless persecution and genocide of Europe’s Jews. Thus, audiovisual archives with recorded testimonies of survivors have become even more valuable. In this context, the Jewish Museum

The exhibition “Karya 1943. Forced Labour and the Holocaust” is the first exhibition in Germany and Greece dedicated to the issue of forced labour of Greek Jews during the German occupation. It is organized by the Jewish Museum of Greece, the Benaki Museum and the Nazi Forced Labor Documentation Center in Berlin. The central theme

Dear Friends, From Monday 1 July 2024, the Jewish Museum of Greece changed its opening hours. The opening hours are: Monday – Friday: 09:00 – 16:00Saturday: closedSunday: 10:00 – 16:00 We are waiting for you!  

Νew exhibition: “HerStories. In the Footsteps of Jewish Women in Europe” On Sunday, 7th of April, the official opening of the new exhibition “HerStories. In the Footsteps of Jewish Women in Europe”, which is part of the EU project HerStories took place with great success. The exhibition brings the multifaceted Jewish history of 20th century

Memorandum of cooperation signed between Greece and Cyprus on Holocaust memory and combating antisemitism In February, a memorandum of cooperation for the preservation of the memory of the Holocaust and the fight against antisemitism was signed between the Ministries of Education of Greece and Cyprus, the Orthodox Church of Greece, the Orthodox Church of Cyprus,