TREZOROS - The Lost Jews of Kastoria (Greece) One Story Speaks for Many (Town Life Clip) Watch by clicking on the video link above This deeply moving documentary illuminates the lives of a Sephardic community in Greece whose story speaks for all people who have been displaced and wronged by war and discrimination. The story is set in the beautiful and idyllic city of Kastoria where Jews and Christians lived in harmony for over two millennia. In October 1940 this would all change after the invasion of Greece by Axis forces. Initially occupied by Italy, the Jewish community remained safe- but after Mussolini fell from power the Nazis took control of the town, dooming the community that had existed since the times of the Roman Empire. The film uses never-before-seen archival footage, vibrantly bringing to life just one of the many Jewish communities that had existed in Greece before the end of World War II. “Trezoros” (Ladino/Judeo Spanish term of endearment meanin...

SEPHARDIC JUDAISM'S HIDDEN CHILDREN  IN OCCUPIED GREECE by Alexios Nicholaos Menexiadis Published in The National Herald, February 4, 2006 Issue ------------------------------ I am excited to announce that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ ----------------------- There are many similarities between the history, sufferings and fate of the Jews who were living in Greece during the Second World War and the Occupation, and those of the same fate in other German-occupied territories, but there are also many differences.  Extensive investigation has been going on for some years now into the tragic story of the Jews of that time, as part of international historical research into the Holocaust. Greek historians and researchers have written noteworthy and particularly interesting works documenting events, ac...

KEHILA KEDOSHA JANINA NEW YORK'S GREEK JEWISH COMMUNITY Published in The National Herald, July 9-10 2016 Issue Authored by TNH Staff ------------------------------ We are excited to announce that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ The Greek Jews have a long history going back over 2,300 years to the time of Alexander the Great.  They arrived in Ioannina, according to folk belief, when a group swam ashore escaping a Roman slave ship in the year 70.  The Greek-speaking Romaniote Jewish community was well-established in Greece when the Jews of Spain, the Sephardim, were expelled in 1492, many moving to Greece to escape the Spanish Inquisition.  Kehila Kedosha Janina on Broome Street on the Lower East Side is the last remaining Romaniote synagogue in the Western Hemisphere and was named after Ioannina where t...