Jewish homes in Volos targeted with antisemitic graffiti / Holocaust memorial in Kavala desecrated

According to taxydromos.gr, at least three residential buildings in the port city of Volos where Jewish people live were targeted with antisemitic graffiti in recent days. Graffiti showing a Star of David and a swastika joined by an equal sign was found scrawled on the outer wall of a Jewish home. The perpetrators also wrote:

Wave of antisemitic attacks hits Greece

A hideous graffiti, that last Friday, October 16, 2020, defaced the Holocaust Monument of Thessaloniki, was added to the chain of desecrations, threats and vandalism that occurred last week in Greece: “Juden raus” graffiti at the Jewish Cemetery of Athens, “Death to Israel” at the Jewish Cemetery of Thessaloniki, four vandalized tombs at the Jewish Cemetery

In 2018, the Racist Violence Recording Network recorded 10 anti-Semitic attacks in Greece

Athens, 19.4.2019- The Racist Violence Recording Network (RVRN) presented yesterday their annual report, which analyses findings of racist violence and hate crime across Greece in 2018, recorded by the 46 organizations participating in the Network. From January to December 2018, the RVRN documented, through interviews with victims, 117 incidents of racist violence, with more than

Trikala Holocaust Memorial with “goyim” graffiti vandalized

The Holocaust Memorial at the city of Trikala, in northwestern Thessaly, was found desecrated with the inscription «ΓΚΟΪΜ» (“goyim”), just four months after its unveiling. Photos from the Greek outlet trikalanews.gr captured the vandalism. The monument designed by the municipality, with input from Trikala’s Jewish community, is in the shape of a tear flanked by

Citizens of Thessaloniki fill the Holocaust memorial with flowers in response to recent desecrations

With a flower in hand, citizens of Thessaloniki gathered in the afternoon of July 4, 2018, in front of the Holocaust Memorial at Liberty Square to protest recent vandalisms of the monument. The Holocaust Monument in Thessaloniki was defaced with red paint in the night of Wednesday June 27, 2018. According to authorities and press

Komotini Holocaust memorial vandalized three times in matter of months

The Komotini Holocaust memorial (northeastern Greece) has been vandalized three times in a span of four months’ time, Deputy Mayor Ioannis Mourtidis recently admitted on Facebook. The Holocaust memorial was defaced for the fourth time on 5th of January 2018 or before, as unknown vandals threw red color on top the monument (see photo below).

Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki desecrated with “Golden Dawn” graffiti

Only days after the desecration with “Free Palestine” graffiti, the Thessaloniki Holocaust memorial was vandalized by Greek nazis with “Golden Dawn” graffiti (see photo of the new vandalism below). Tens of thousands of Greeks protested today in Thessaloniki the use of the name “Macedonia” in a solution to a dispute between Greece and Republic of

Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki desecrated with “Free Palestine” graffiti

Vandals desecrated the Thessaloniki Holocaust memorial with “Free Palestine” graffiti. Back in 2014, the monument in commemoration of the old Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki was desecrated with the same graffiti, just weeks after it was dedicated. Appalling: Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki, Greece desecrated with "Free Palestine" graffiti. 94% of the city's 50,000 Jews were murdered

Athens Holocaust Memorial vandalized again

Via Minos Moissis & CFCA The Holocaust Memorial in Athens, close to the Synagogue, was vandalized on Saturday. The inscription in Elie Wiesel’s words at the Holocaust Memorial  was stripped by strangers, disappeared in two of its three tracks with the meaningful text in Greek and French. The Jewish community of Athens made a public

Four Men Arrested For Vandalizing Holocaust Memorial In Kavala

Police say they have arrested four men who used hammers to smash the marble veneer on the Holocaust memorial in Kavala three months ago. All four men are Greek citizens, aged 40, 29, 22 and 20 years, local media have reported. The Kavala Holocaust Memorial was dedicated on June 7, 2015 after city officials postponed its