Fighting antisemitism and preserving the memory of the Holocaust: advances in Greece and Europe?
Sunday, February 2, 2025, at 4:00 PM PST
Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium
Fowler Museum, UCLA
Please join the USC Shoah Foundation and our partners at UCLA for the event "Fighting Antisemitism and Preserving the Memory of the Holocaust: Advances in Greece and Europe? on February 2, 2025. For program and registration information, please see the attached flyer.
About Dr. Leon Saltiel
Dr. Leon Saltiel is a historian specializing on the Holocaust in Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Greek History from the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece, and has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His publications include The Holocaust in Thessaloniki: Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution, 1942–1943 (Routledge 2020), which won the 2021 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research, and ‘Do Not Forget Me’: Three Jewish Mothers Write to their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto in Greek (Alexandria 2018), English (Berghahn 2021) and French (Denoël 2023). He also serves as Director of Diplomacy and Representative at UN Geneva and UNESCO, and Coordinator on Countering Antisemitism for the World Jewish Congress.
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