Thessaloniki's oldest and largest Ottoman bathhouse has fully reopened marking a cornerstone in a broader €100 million initiative.
The Associated Press A party tent is raised on the sea-facing terrace of the 5th-century church of Osios David on June 25 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Later that day, a festival would be celebrated there ...
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 deported to Auschwitz. Each year on ...
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 ...
“There is a homeland for everyone, while there is Thessaloniki,” wrote Nikiforos Choumnos, a 14th-century Byzantine dignitary and scholar. And he was right: Thessaloniki is a gorgeous and cosmopolitan ...
The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival (TiDF) is gearing up for an action-packed 10-day event, running ...
A party tent is raised on the sea-facing terrace of the 5th-century church of Osios David on June 25 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Later that day, a festival would be celebrated there despite the summer ...
“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 ...