Best Attractions & Things to do in Corfu Town, Greece
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List of Best Things to do in Corfu
Casa Parlante
Church of Saint Spiridon
Corfu Old Town
The Liston
Corfu Museum of Asian Art
British Cemetry
Issos Beach
Old Fortress Corfu
Spianada Square
Holocaust Memorial of Corfu
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Synagogues in Germany: A Virtual Reconstruction (Clip 3 of 3)
The Holocaust Memorial Center was pleased to present Synagogues in Germany: A Virtual Reconstruction. The exhibition had its North American premiere on August 29th and ran through November 29th, 2010.
The 1994 arson attack on a synagogue in Lübeck, Germany motivated a number of students at the Darmstadt Technical University to explore an important chapter in the history of German architecture. Using Computer Aided Design (CAD) to simulate true-to-life three-dimensional conceptions and spatial arrangements, they virtually reconstructed synagogues that were targets of Nazi violence. The reconstruction process was intended not only to create interest in valuable historical monuments, but also in architecture now lost.
The elaborate CAD reconstructions provide a representative survey of the architecture of synagogues in Germany before their destruction during Kristallnacht in November of 1938. What is more, they convey visual impressions of the diversity, the splendor and the significance of the synagogue in the history of German urban architecture from the early nineteenth century until 1938.
The exhibition displayed the reconstructions of 14 synagogues which, until the time of their destruction, were an integral part of the urban landscape of Cologne, Berlin, Darmstadt, Dortmund, Dresden, Frankfurt, Hanover, Kaiserslautern, Leipzig, Munich, Nuremberg and Plauen. The exhibit also makes an important contribution to the development of new and contemporary forms of restoration.
This is an exhibition of the German Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa/Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations) and the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
HISTORY OF GREEK JEWS OF CORFU AND GREECE
Holocaust Remembrance Day of the Greek Jewry at The Hebrew Union College on Jan. 21st, 2020.
Holocaust Remembrance Day of the Greek Jewry at The Hebrew Union College on Jan. 21st, 2020.
Hosted by Greek Consul General Konstantinos Koutras, Keynote Speaker David Harris, Chief Executive Officer of The American Jewish Committee.
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A Day Trip to Corfu Town, to have a wander about
As soon as our coach stopped outside the Old Fort of Corfu Town, most people either hurried off to go into the Fort, or veered across the road, to head off to the Listons & the tourist shops around the church of St. Spiridon. Not me .... I went the opposite direction, to walk along the sea wall around Garitsa Bay, where expensive yachts & power boats moor, & the large Hotel Corfu Palace, with its Casino faces the sea. From there, I walked back towards the Town & around the edges, calling in to the Museum of Asian Art, plus a well known artist's exhibition. Lots & lots of photos taken, & here they are, in movie form, with some great accompanying Greek music. Enjoy!
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Nata Osmo Gattegno
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Nata Osmo Gattegno was born in 1923 on the island of Corfu, Greece. Her older brother Leone was born there, as were her three younger sisters, Yehudit, Irene, and Sarah Rahel.
The Italians occupied the island in 1941, and Nata, still in high school, joined the Red Cross. When the Germans occupied the island on 13 September 1943, Nata joined an underground organization. At first, she raised funds; afterwards she surreptitiously monitored radio broadcasts as a member of a five-person team that operated in a cellar under a German officers' club.
In this capacity, Nata was a news analyst. The organization members disseminated hand-printed leaflets in the street. In 1944 the underground informed them that the Germans had rounded up the Jews of Salonika, Athens, and Ioannina; Nata was ordered to inform the head of the community and the rabbi to take appropriate measures. They treated the reports with disbelief, convinced that the Germans merely wished to frighten them.
The order to deport the Jews of Corfu was received on 13 April, 1944. At this time, Nata, assisted by the EPON underground group, smuggled out her two sisters, who survived. By this time, her brother had died in Corfu.
She and the rest of her family, along with the others were deported by sea to Patras and thence to Athens and, by train, to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Although partisans had come to rescue Nata in Corfu, at the fort, and at every stop in Greece, she refused to abandon her parents. Her parents and the other members of her family who were deported to Auschwitz were killed there. Today, Nata lives with her husband Israel in Tel Aviv.
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Greek Rescuer Reunites with Jews She Saved During the Holocaust
One of the last stories of its kind unfolded in Jerusalem.
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History of the Jews in Greece | Wikipedia audio article
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Jews have been present in Greece since at least the fourth century BC. The oldest and the most characteristic Jewish group that has inhabited Greece are the Romaniotes, also known as Greek Jews. However, the term Greek Jew is predominantly used for any person of Jewish descent or faith that lives in or originates from the modern region of Greece.
Aside from the Romaniotes, a distinct Jewish population that historically lived in communities throughout Greece and neighboring areas with large Greek populations, Greece had a large population of Sephardi Jews, and is a historical center of Sephardic life; the city of Salonica or Thessaloniki, in Greek Macedonia, was called the Mother of Israel. Greek Jews played an important role in the early development of Christianity, and became a source of education and commerce for the Byzantine Empire and throughout the period of Ottoman Greece, until suffering devastation in the Holocaust after Greece was conquered and occupied by the Axis powers despite efforts by Greeks to protect them. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, a large percentage of the surviving community emigrated to Israel or the United States.
The Jewish community in Greece currently amounts to roughly 8,000 people, concentrated mainly in Athens, Thessaloniki (or Salonika in Judeo-Spanish), Larissa, Volos, Chalkis, Ioannina, Trikala, Corfu and a functioning synagogue on Crete, while very few remain in Kavala and Rhodes. Greek Jews today largely live side by side in harmony with Christian Greeks, according to Giorgo Romaio, president of the Greek Committee for the Jewish Museum of Greece, while nevertheless continuing to work with other Greeks, and Jews worldwide, to combat any rise of anti-Semitism in Greece. Currently the Jewish community of Greece makes great efforts to establish a Holocaust museum in the country. A permanent pavilion about the Holocaust of Greek Jews in KZ Auschwitz shall be installed. A delegation and the president of the Jewish communities of Greece met in November 2016 with Greek politicians and asked them for support in their demand to get back the community archives of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki from Moscow.
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Olami 3 Greece - Holocaust Ceremony in Thessaloniki Jewish Cemetery
Olami 3 remembers the Sephardic Jews of Thessaloniki and Greece that perished during the Holocaust at the new Jewish Cemetery in Thessaloniki
Jurotrip - Episode 08 Corfu, Greece
We visit the synagogue of Corfu, speak with their President, wander around a fortress and find a guitar.
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Ioannina Citadel old Jewish synagogue - Ancient Romaniote Jews in Greece
Ioannina Citadel old Jewish synagogue - Ancient Romaniote Jews in Greece
History and Heritage
Ioannina, a small city in northwestern Greece near the Albanian border, was home to Jews for more than 1,300 years from the eighth century until the present. Due to its location west of the Pindos Mountain Range, the community was isolated geographically from the mainstream of Judaism, even that within Greece. Consequently, the community developed its own traditions, customs, and minhag, (prayer rites), and remained Greek-speaking even after most other Jewish communities on Greek soil were absorbed into the traditional Sephardic world following the post-1492 influx of Spanish-speaking Jews. Yanniote Jews, as they called themselves (only the scholars used the term Romaniote) remained a small community throughout its existence, probably never numbering more than four or five thousand at its peak.
About half the community (an estimated 2,000) immigrated to the United States between 1902 and 1924. Most settled on the Lower East Side of Manhattan not far from the present site of Kehila Kedosha Janina. Their reasons for leaving were political upheavals in the Balkans, economic instability, antiquated inheritance laws and the dowry system, and, of course, the desire for a better life for themselves and their children. Lured by the possibility of educational and economic opportunities, they made the long and arduous journey to the New World. Because of the small community size and closeness of its members - most married within the community - after immigration to the United States the community in Greece never lost touch with the community established in New York.
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The end would take place on a cold March day, March 25th, Greek Independence Day, which that year also coincided with the onset of Pessah. In the cold of the morning, with snow on the ground, only given time to gather a few possessions, the community was roused out of their beds and gathered together on the shores of the lake they loved so much. The Jews of Ioannina would then be placed on trucks and taken to Larissa, where they would be kept for over a week before being placed in cattlecars and sent to the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. They would arrive on April 11, 1944. Most would go directly to the gas chambers.
Some of the survivors immigrated to Israel, others chose to move to the United States, and a few returned back to their homeland and to the traditions they once knew in Ioannina. Although many were murdered in the horrors of the Holocaust, this once vibrant Jewish community still exists in Greece today, albeit a fraction of its former self. Now, there are only around 50 Jews left in the city of Ioannina, many of them survivors of the Holocaust. Yet in the face of tremendous struggles, their perseverance has continued to help preserve some of the unique traditions and heritages of this once florishing community of Romaniote Jews.
During the German occupation, the New Synagogue, its annex and the school were used as stables and each was severely damaged. Once the Jewish community was deported, the Germans used the wood from the buildings as firewood. After the war, the Greek government razed the remaining structures. Today, an apartment building stands on this site. Most of the aged, surviving Jewish community in Ioannina lives here and the building houses the Jewish Community Center. The Greek Christians refer to this block-long building as “Ta Evraika”(The Jewish Quarter).
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Jackie Handaly, Greek Jewish Holocaust Survivor - Part 3
On July 28, 2010 at Israel's Yad Vashem Musuem, Jewish Holocaust Survivor Jackie Handaly from the Greek city of Salonica speaks about his treatment at the hands of the Nazis during World War II. This video was taken by journalist Karmel Melamed.
The Unknown Holocaust of Kommeno
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Romaniote Jews | Wikipedia audio article
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Romaniote Jews
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written
language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through
audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio
while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using
a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
In case you don't find one that you were looking for, put a comment.
This video uses Google TTS en-US-Standard-D voice.
SUMMARY
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The Romaniote Jews or Romaniotes (Greek: Ῥωμανιῶτες, Rhōmaniṓtes; Hebrew: רומניוטים, Romanyotim) are an ethnic Jewish community native to the Eastern Mediterranean. They are generally one of the oldest Jewish communities in existence and specifically the oldest Jewish community in Europe. Their distinct language was Judaeo-Greek, a Greek dialect that contained Hebrew along with some Aramaic and Turkish words but now speak modern Greek or the languages of their new home countries. They derived their name from the old name for the people of the Byzantine Empire, Romaioi. Large communities were located in Thebes, Ioannina, Chalcis, Corfu, Arta, Preveza, Volos, Patras, Corinth, and on the islands of Zakynthos, Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Rhodes, and Cyprus, among others. The Romaniotes are historically distinct and still remain distinct from the Sephardim, who settled in Ottoman Greece after the 1492 expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
A majority of the Jewish population of Greece was killed in the Holocaust after Axis powers occupied Greece during World War II. They deported most of the Jews to Nazi concentration camps. After the war, a majority of the survivors emigrated to Israel, the United States, and Western Europe. Today there are still functioning Romaniote Synagogues in Chalkis which represents the oldest Jewish congregation on European ground, in Ioannina, Athens, New York and Israel.
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