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Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Greek experience, and its relevance today

Every year on January 27 we commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day. While this is a story of great pain and sorrow, as the Greek experience shows us, it’s also an opportunity to remember the brave individuals who decided to stand up to hate no matter the consequences - the Righteous Among The Nations. David Harris, a lifelong friend of Greece and the previous CEO of the American Jewish Committee, joins Thanos Davelis as we commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, the story of Greece during the Holocaust, and its special relevance today given the alarming rise in antisemitism. 

You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:

Reserve off Crete is promising

Turkey: Sweden complicit in hate crime, NATO talks pointless

Turkey says it is "meaningless" to restore NATO dialogue with Sweden, Finland

 

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