If I am correct, then “Salam” has no place here.

I WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS.

Here are just a few examples of the greeting “Salam” or “Salaam”:

If a non-Muslim greets a Muslim by saying ‘Salaam’ he will not be rewarded in the Hereafter for this act. If a disbeliever greets you with Salaam, then you should limit your reply to saying: “Wa ‘Alaykum” and not the full response of Salaam.
Allaah Knows best.

Similarly it is not permissible to initiate a greeting such as Ahlan wa sahlan (welcome) and the like, because that is a kind of honouring them. But if they say something like that to us, then we should say something similar to them, because the greeting should be returned in like manner and each person should be given his due. It is well known that the Muslims are higher in status before Allaah, so they should not humiliate themselves in front of non-Muslims by greeting them first.

In a program on Al-Jazeera Channel, Al-Shari’ah Wal-Hayah (Islamic Law and Life), dated Sunday May 9th 1999, Shaikh (scholar) Yusuf Al-Qaradawi noted that the concept of Dar Al-Harb (Abode of War) was introduced in the Fiqh Hanafi. Al-Imam (the legislator and scholar) Abu Hanifa divided the Muslim role into two categories: Dar Al-Islam (Abode of Islam) and Dar Al-Harb (Abode of War). He would refer to any non-Muslim domain as Dar Al-Kufr (Abode of Unbelief) or Dar Al-Harb even if there is no current war between them and the Muslims.

For much of Islamic history, the preferred term used to describe non-Islamic societies has been dar al-Harb, emphasizing various Islamic countries’ aspirations to conquer such territories and render them part of dar al-Islam.

Yosef Chaim Leitner, son of Falk Leitner lived in Postyen / Piestany (Slovakia), his wife Finkel Herczog died in Piestany 9 Sivan 5682 [1922], her gravestone still exist in the Jewish cemetery in Piestany
they also had a child Todros Leitner, who is buried in piestany, died 5 teves 5648

During the holocaust the Greeks, the Greek-Orthodox Church and the civilian authorities saved many Jews. The famous story of the island of Zakyntos is probably known to many. There were 257 Jews on the Island. The Germans demanded that Bishop Chrysostomos and Mayor Karrer hand over the names of the island’s Jews. The following day the Germans returned an got a sealed envelope containing the names of the Jews. The list had only two names: Chrysostomos and Karrer. The bishop and the Mayor smuggled out the Jews, and the survival rate of the Jews of Zakyntos was incredible – 100%.

Jewish life can still be seen in Veria. Walking next to the river one can see the Hebrew inscriptions on the houses. One says: “אם אשכחך ירושלם תשכח ימיני” and the other “זכר לחרבן”. A Jewish custom is to leave part of a wall unpainted זכר לחורבן but here we see it written with decorations.

Just a bit of clarification and detail.

The behavior of Rabbi Elias Barzilai, the Rabbi of Athens, during the holocaust was different than that of Rabbi Koretz. He was more realistic of the German intentions. After his meeting with Dieter Wisliceny from the German Rosenberg Commando, where he was ordered to deliver the names and addresses of the Jews, he informed Archbishop Damaskinos about the meeting. The Archbishop advised him that the members of the community should flee. Rabbi Barzilai himself was shaved and sent to the Partisans. He never returned to Wisliceny with the list.
The Germans prepared a trap. On April 1944 the Jewish Passover was coming. The authorities published that there would be a special delivery of flour for MATZOTH (at that time ordinary flour was scarce). It seems ridiculous that Jews would fall in that trap, but some desperate ones did.

There were two main groups of Jews that settled in Greece. The one, the Jews from the Roman and Byzantine Empire are the Romaniote, and the other, the Jews that were expelled from Spain and Portugal and settled in Greece are the Sfardim. The Jews of Athens and Ioannina were Romaniote and the Jews of Rhodes and Kastoria were Sfardim.

The largest port in Greece is Thessaloniki. More than half of its population was Jewish, therefore the weekly day of rest of the city was Saturday, as the Jews did not work on Shabat. Only in 1930, Hellenization established Sunday as the weekly day of rest. Under the Ottomans the official language was Turkish, but the spoken one in Thessaloniki was Ladino. It also changed in 1930.