President Reuven Rivlin joined Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday for a foundation stone-laying ceremony for a Holocaust museum in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, which lost 97 percent of its Jewish community during the war.

On Sunday December 4th, 2016 the Minister of Foreign affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. Frank Walter Steinmeier, inaugurated the exhibition “Divided Memories 1940-1950- The distance between history and experience” at the Macedonian Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition co-organized by the Goethe Institute Thessaloniki, The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki , The Macedonian Museum of Modern Art and the Deutches Historisches Museum of Berlin is hosted by the Macedonian Museum of Modern Art and its duration is until February 26th, 2016.

On 15-9-2016 the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki welcomed the Minister of State of the Federal Republic of Germany Mr. Michael Roth, who in 2014, during his visit to Thessaloniki, had expressed the intention of the Federal Republic of Germany to support the creation of Holocaust Memorial Museum and Education Center for Human Rights.