On January 31, David Saltiel, President of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, and Jacques Fredj, Director of the Shoah Memorial, signed an agreement to create a Holocaust museum and educational center in Thessaloniki. The Shoah Memorial will provide expertise and assistance as part of the accord, which was signed in the presence of the Mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris, the Consul General of France and the Director of the French Institute of Thessaloniki, Christophe Le Rigoleur. The signing took place on the sidelines of a ceremony to honor the Holocaust’s victims in Thessaloniki.
