Axis occupation of Greece

Dendias says issue of German war reparations remains open

Greece's claims for World War II reparations from Germany remains "absolutely open" for the Greek government, Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said on Wednesday.

Dendias was speaking from Kalavryta where he marked the 80th anniversary of the massacre during the Nazi occupation of Greece in World War II, representing the government. 

Holocaust survivor dies

One of the very few Greek Jews who survived the Holocaust, Esther Cohen, has died in her native Ioannina in northwestern Greece. She was 96. 

She was the only survivor in her family as her parents and siblings were killed. There are now only 20 Greek Jews that survived the Holocaust who are still alive.

She was also the second to last Jew left in Ioannina.

Anti-racism law invoked in Jewish memorial vandalism

A prosecutor in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki has ordered an urgent investigation into the destruction by unknown vandals of a local Jewish memorial.

Prosecutor Evangelos Zarkantzias instructed police Monday to treat the attack on a monument marking a former Jewish cemetery as a breach of Greece's laws against racism, which carry harsher penalties than ordinary vandalism.