The Melbourne Holocaust Museum will present a lecture by Dr Leon Saltiel on the Jews of Thessaloniki on Monday, 24 April.
Delving into the evolution of the thriving communities of Jewish life in the Greek city for over two millennia, Dr Saltiel will focus on key moments such as its creation in antiquity, the impact of the Inquisition, its incorporation with the Greek state, the Holocaust, and life of Jewish people in Thessaloniki today.
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Leon Saltiel is a historian specialising in the persecution of Jews in Greece.
His publications include The Holocaust in Thessaloniki: Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution, 1942–1943, which won the 2021 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research, and ‘Do Not Forget Me’: Three Jewish Mothers Write to their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto.
Dr Saltiel is also a member of the Central Board of Jewish Communities of Greece and of the Greek delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
He currently serves as Director of Diplomacy, Representative at UN Geneva and UNESCO, and Coordinator on Countering Antisemitism for the World Jewish Congress.
Source: neoskosmos