Daily Podcasts Video Research

Poland returns 91 Jewish objects to Greece, decades after they were stolen by the Nazis

JL;DR SUMMARY Poland has returned 91 sacred Jewish artifacts to Greece, which were originally looted by the Nazis from Thessaloniki, a city with a significant Jewish population that suffered monumental losses during the Holocaust. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

JL;DR members get full summaries of all articles in the archive, including this one. Donate & start reading »

Tags

HolocaustPolandRestitutionWorld Jewish Restitution OrganizationGreeceThessalonikiJewish ArtifactsJewish Historical InstituteEinsatzstab Reichsleiter RosenbergJewish Museum Of Greece

Places mentioned

PoznaƄ, Greater Poland, Poland
"The objects were transferred to Nazi depots in southwestern Poland and rediscovered at a castle in Bokw after the war."
Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece
"The Nazis stole the objects from synagogues in Thessaloniki, a port city once known as the Jerusalem of the Balkans."
Athens, Attica, Greece
"Now, the objects are headed to the Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Poland returned 91 religious and ceremonial artifacts to the Greek government at a ceremony in Warsaw on Wednesday."

Support this source

This item was indexed and curated by Cairo, JL;DR's web crawler.
Cairo Item ID 76827
Cairo Source ID 42
Retrieved 2026-03-04 18:00:42 UTC
Curated 2026-03-04 19:00:29 UTC