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Unionized healthcare workers will demonstrate amid strike in Athens, Greece, June 22; heightened security, localized disruptions likely.

Ioannina lake, Greece. Credit dkilim/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Visiting Athens is the perfect excuse to take a trip to Ioannina, the capital of Epirus in Greece. Until recently, this destination would never have qualified for a weekend trip, as it took far to long to get there.However, thanks to new highways connecting Ioannina to Athens, it’s a…

Ioannina lake, Greece. Credit dkilim/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Visiting Athens is the perfect excuse to take a trip to Ioannina, the capital of Epirus in Greece. Until recently, this destination would never have qualified for a weekend trip, as it took far to long to get there.However, thanks to new highways connecting Ioannina to Athens, it’s a…

Greece’s oldest Auschwitz survivor has died On December 1, Greece’s oldest Auschwitz survivor, Esther Cohen, died at the age of 96. In 1944, as a young woman, she was deported from her hometown of Ioannina to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp along with her parents and six siblings. Apart from one sister, her entire family died at the camp. Deportation of the Jews of Ioannina, documented by the Nazi Propaganda Company, March 25, 1944 (Bundesarchiv, Image 101I-179-1575-02 / Wetzel / CC-BY-SA 3.0). The northern Greek city of Ioannina in the Epirus region had a strong Jewish communit...