(Bring They Live Goggles) Jewish quarter of Chania ðŸ•Ž Jews of Crete

Rindfleisch
Published on Apr 23, 2021
Etz Chayim (Tree of Life) Synagogue. Jewish quarter of Chania, Crete. I added the historic photos of Cretan and Greek Jews from 00:33. At 04:40 you can also see the Mosque of Chania and the Venetian Harbour. Filmed by me September 2020, Chania, Crete, Greece. There had been an ancient Jewish community of Greek speaking Jews (so called Romaniote Jews, who were probably the closest to the ancient Hebrews of the Bible, being the direct descendants of ancient Israelites) in Chania which disappeared in 1944 in the deep sea not far off the coast of Heraklion. Only some months before the end of the Nazi occupation of Crete, nearly 2300 years of Cretan Jewish history was obliterated in a single day. In the year of the bombing and strafing of Chania, at the beginning of the Battle of Crete, Beth Shalom Synagogue was destroyed, leaving only one synagogue to serve the needs of the entire community. In May 1944, all the Cretan Jews, who at that time numbered about 300 individuals, had been arrested by the Nazis. After fifteen days incarcarated in the nearby Ayas prison, the Jewish prisoners were sent by convoy to Heraklion where they were herded onto a cargo ship, the Tanais, together with some Greek and Italian prisoners of war. In the early hours of the following morning, halfway to the port of Piraeus and somewhere off the island of Milos, the ship was struck by two torpedoes fired from a British submarine and sank within fifteen minutes â€“ leaving no survivorsâ€¦â€œ May God and Lord Almighty grant peace to their souls!

GREEK JEWS OF CHANIA, CRETE - ANCIENT ISRAELITES OF THE BIBLE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romaniote_Jews - are an ethnic Jewish community native to the Eastern Mediterranean. They are one of the oldest Jewish communities in existence and the oldest Jewish community in Europe. Their distinct language was Judaeo-Greek or Yevanic, a Greek dialect that contained Hebrew along with some Aramaic and Turkish words.

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