Musée d'Histoire
Musée juif de Thessalonique
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Dimitris
July 15, 2020
The museum is founded by the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki and is located in the city’s center at the Modiano Market place, which was the centre of the Jewish community from the time when the first Spanish Jews settled in the city until the Second World War. The museum opened its doors in March 1997 having as its main purpose to keep the memory of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community alive. The permanent exhibition displays copies of exhibits from the Beth Lohamei Agetaoth Kibbutz opened in Israel since 1933 and is titled: “Thessaloniki” The Metropolis of Sephardic Jewry. Details of the history and the activity of the Jews of Thessaloniki and their contribution to the city’s economic development, their public welfare institutions, their publishing activity and the development of the Zionist movement are presented. The exhibits are from the period when the city was founded in 315 BC and especially from the year 1492 when 15–20,000 Spanish Sephardi Jews settled in Thessaloniki until the Holocaust of the city’s Jews during the German Occupation in WWII. There are exhibitions of photographs relating to the Holocaust, replicate of the exhibition in the Auschwitz Institute in Brussels, texts and photographs reproducing the rise to power from the Nazis’, the German policy of racism, the life in the concentration camps, the annihilation of the Jews in the gas chambers and crematoria, the resistance’s hits and the liberation of the remaining prisoners by the Allied Forces in 1945. There are shocking documentation brought back by the few Thessalonikean Jews who returned from the concentration camps and these are items as the two pieces of soap, one green and one white which were made from the body fat of slain Jews, a rusty metal identity plate bearing the number 118968, a bent spoon which Heinz Kounio brought back with him, and a camp prisoner’s uniform. (Closest station Port of Thessaloniki in 350 meters distance)
The museum is founded by the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki and is located in the city’s center at the Modiano Market place, which was the centre of the Jewish community from the time when the first Spanish Jews settled in the city until the Second World War. The museum opened its doors in March…
Marina
June 14, 2022
Starting from the Monastiriotes Synagogue, the only pre-war synagogue in the city, aspire to connect places, spaces, signs, streets, buildings, squares and markets with the Jewish presence in the city. Seeking the visible and invisible traces of the human stories, customs, religious rituals, traditions, great moments but also painful losses of the Holocaust, we walk in the center of Thessaloniki and we will visit the city’s Jewish Museum.
Starting from the Monastiriotes Synagogue, the only pre-war synagogue in the city, aspire to connect places, spaces, signs, streets, buildings, squares and markets with the Jewish presence in the city. Seeking the visible and invisible traces of the human stories, customs, religious rituals, traditi…
Elena
April 14, 2022
Museum about the history of Jewls of Thessaloniki
George
December 18, 2013
The main purpose of the museum is to keep the memory of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community alive.
Κατερίνα
September 28, 2019
The idea of building a Jewish Museum of Greece was first conceived in the 1970’s by members of the Jewish Community of Athens, who offered every kind of assistance towards the realisation of this dream. The Museum was first established in 1977 and housed in a small room next to the city’s synagogue. It housed objects salvaged from WW II, whether artefacts, documents and manuscripts of the 19th and 20th centuries, or the jewellery of the Jews of Thrace that had been seized by the Bulgarians in 1943. The latter had been returned to the Greek government after the abdication of the Bulgarian king and the establishment of a communist regime in the country. The following years saw a thorough and careful collection of material from all the communities of Greece, under the inspired guidance of Nikos Stavroulakis, director of the Museum until 1993. The collection expanded with rare books and publications, textiles, jewellery, domestic and religious artifacts, thanks to the interest of several individuals. The Museum soon began to attract the attention of many visitors, researchers and donors. In 1981, the Association of American Friends was founded, followed, a little later, by the Association of Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece, with members of the Jewish Communities of Athens and Thessaloniki. As the Museum’s collection grew and its activities expanded, it soon outgrew its first premises and new ones had to be found. In 1984, it moved to a rented space occupying the 3rd floor of 36, Amalias Avenue. The exhibition was reorganised into thematic units covering the interests of its various visitors. After years of efforts, the Museum acquired its legal status in 1989, as a non-profit foundation with a seven-member Board of Directors. In the following years the Museum’s activities expanded; they involved both the research and study of the Greek Jews – in collaboration with other foundations and researchers from Greece and abroad – and publishing. At the same time, its collection was being continuously enriched with new acquisitions from all over Greece, greatly exceeding all expectations. The increasing needs of the Museum for more space, together with the dream of sometime having its own premises, led to the purchase of a 19th century neoclassical building, with the support of its Friends in Greece and abroad, the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki and the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece. With substantial financial support from the Greek Ministry of Culture and the Associations of its Friends, the old building was renovated and, in late 1997, twenty years after it first opened its doors to the public, the Museum moved to 39 Nikis street, its new address in the centre of Athens. On March 10th, 1998, the new building of the JMG was inaugurated and a new area begun for the Museum. In the following years it developed significantly and extended all its activities, and especially the educational ones. Also, it improved its visitors services and conducted thorough research efforts, the results of which were communicated through several temporary exhibitions and special publications. Contact and communication with the public and international relations and activities of the JMG, signal an extensive social and scientific information and influence exchange.
The idea of building a Jewish Museum of Greece was first conceived in the 1970’s by members of the Jewish Community of Athens, who offered every kind of assistance towards the realisation of this dream. The Museum was first established in 1977 and housed in a small room next to the city’s synagogue.…
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