Culture Minister Lina Mendoni is on an official visit to China in order to expand cultural cooperation between the two countries and to attend the inauguration of the exhibition "Daedalus, Legends of Crete", organized by the Archaeological Museum of Iraklion in cooperation with the Palace Museum in Beijing, on the occasion of the Chinese museum's centennial.

The Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, paid tribute to the memory of 53,000 Greek Jews, victims of the Nazi atrocity at the Auschwitz camp in Poland, during her visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. In the place of martyrdom, the collective memory is kept alive, so that these atrocities are never repeated. Lina Mendoni laid a wreath at the Black Wall, at the execution site of Auschwitz I camp, and the Memorial to the Greek Jews at Birkenau camp.

The repatriation, by the Head of the Antiquities Trafficking Unit Matthew Bogdanos, was achieved thanks to the long-standing and close cooperation between the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the Ministry of Culture.