all about making Thessaloniki what was some decades ago, "the Jerusalem of Balkans"

1. The Jerusalem of The Balkans
THESSALONIKI by George P. Achillias and
Maria Christina Golna

2. ... FACTS
• an amazing community before WWII
• Jewish people, city’s front line runners
• creators, dreamers, doers

3. ... MORE FACTS
• open minded people
• able to travel, to lead, to handle
• unique way to make a place, the center of the
region, of the mediterranean world

4. value creators

5. ...JEWISH PEOPLE
•were the
machine and the
gas of the force
driving forward
the city of
Thessaloniki

6. ... NOW
• faded history
• hidden paths
• closed books
• unrevealed stories

7. ... TODAY
• vision
• people beyond conservative approaches
• people love their city, as people from their city
• eager to appreciate and learn about what the city has to offer

8. young people
love their city
admire people
address communities
ask for more

9. ... AIM
• make locals aware of their history
• reconnect Jewish people with the city
• make the city, a cultural destination
• reveal the magic

10. make Thessaloniki, what it was,
and it can be,
WHAT IT WAS, AND IT CAN BE
a Jewish Historic
Metropolis

11. ... THE PROJECT
find your own path
in
“The Jerusalem of the Balkans”

12. ... HOW
• live the city through the jewish history
• city’s jewish paths
• discover hidden places
• find out corners ( houses, holy places, schools)

13. ... HOW
• connect today with the past
• enlighten the future
• make the city again a jewish place to visit

14. ... HOW
• organize hosting facilities, make them Jewish oriented
• the city has its Jewish side, language
• hotels offer long weekend

15. ... HOW
create a network of stores
offering discounts to visitors
give the city
a chance to
love more its
multicultural build a mobile app about the
history way to walk and discover the city
create an iPad app, with content,
pictures, articles about the city

16. ... THE WAY TO DO THINGS
Celebration of major Thessaloniki lives her
Jewish days, festivities Jewish tradition and history

17. ... MEMORIES
Jewish people discover a city of
their ancestors
Greeks find even
more reasons to
be proud of this
city

18. Community
drives, connects,
wires, provides,
gives, shares
memories, stories
values

19. public and private architecture &
a revolutionary educational system

20. ... A DAY TO COME
where past
will become
a promising future
where People
will spend their days,
in the most amazing city
for them, in the region

21. ... WHY
to discover what it is hidden
to appreciate what it worths
to admire what it counts
to bring closer amazing people
to give people back their city