Holocaust Memorials - Monuments, Museums and Institutions in Commemoration of Nazi Victims

in detail

The museum, which was built in 1997, is in the city centre of Thessaloniki.

 

The museum focuses on the history of the Sephardic Jewish community of Thessaloniki – from their expulsion from Spain in 1492 to their extermination by the German occupying power in 1943.

 

The permanent exhibition presents artefacts from the museum’s collection that bear witness to the city’s Jewish heritage. A photographic exhibition by Simon Marks bearing the title ‘Thessaloniki, Sephardic Metropolis’ is also on display.

 

The library contains numerous works, some of them extremely rare, about Jewish life in Thessaloniki. The Museum also publishes brochures on Jewish history and culture.

The Jewish Museum in Thessaloniki focuses primarily on the history of the Sephardic Jewish community that was established in Thessaloniki after the Jews were driven out of Spain. This community, with its more than 50.000 members, was almost competely wiped out by the deportations in 1943.

1997
Museum established by the Jewish Community as part of Thessaloniki's programme as a Cultural Capital of Europe.
There is a library in the museum.