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of APE correspondent F. Karavitis
With the program "Karya 1943. Jewish Forced Labor and Holocaust in Greece" and the exhibitions of the same title in Berlin and Athens illuminates, more than 80 years later, a "blind spot" in the history of the Nazi occupation in Greece.
The writer Giorgos Vafopoulos likens it to "dental hell". The site of martyrdom for around 400 Thessalonian Jews is now being highlighted, to remind that many aspects of the Occupation period still remain dimly lit in the collective memory.
The Documentation Center for Forced Labor is located in the Schönweide district in the east of Berlin, right on the site of the forced laborers' quarters during the Nazi period.
More: EXHIBITION IN GERMANY "KARYA 1943. FORCED LABOR AND HOLOCAUST IN GREECE" - LIGHT ON...
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of Eleni Vasilakis
The writer Donna-Lilian Capon is the offspring of an old Greek-Jewish family, whose members left a mark on Crete as well.
You see her mother, Mafalda, was born and raised in Chania and her uncle, the demonic and successful businessman, Leon Albert associated his name, even if some tried to keep it in obscurity, with some of the most iconic works on the island, such as the Municipal Market of Chania, the Keritis river bridge, but also the section of the National Road that connects Chania with Rethymno.
Donna-Lillian Capon lived her whole life in Athens, but during the summers she spent a large part of her vacations in Crete, so she kept alive many of the memories of those beautiful times.
More: INTERVIEW WITH DONNA-LILIAN KAPON ABOUT HER NEW BOOK, ABOUT ATHENS AND HER CHILDREN'S CRETE...
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As the events for the 80th anniversary of the expulsion of the Jews of Rhodes and Kos (1944 – 2024) have already started, from 16.7.24 in Rhodes, and will be completed in Kos, on 22.7.2024, a sensational exhibition in Milan honors the tragic anniversary by presenting data on the 1.817 displaced Jews of the Dodecanese.
The exhibition "The Jews of Rhodes - Eclipse of a Community, 1944 - 2024" on display until September 2, 2024 at the Shoah Museum and Memorial Center, operating in the underground tunnels beneath Milan Central Station.
More: EXHIBITION IN MILAN ON THE HOLOCAUST OF THE JEWS OF RHODES AND KO
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From June 9 to 11, 2024, I had the honor of representing the Jewish Youth of Greece (ENE) at the AJC World Congress in Washington. This important event brought together over 2.000 Jewish leaders and supporters from more than 50 countries, providing an invaluable opportunity for networking and the exchange of ideas.
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Many Jewish communities in Macedonia and Thrace disappeared in the Holocaust, yet their presence in the places where their communities once thrived is still palpable. These are places, after all, which are defined by a multicultural legacy and a respect for history that expresses itself in myriad ways. One of these is the last of two concerts on July 8 at the archaeological site at Abdera in Xanthi, which shines a spotlight on the life and work of an important Greek-Austrian Jew, Renato Mordo (9-1894). He was born in Austria in XNUMX to a Corfiot father and an Austrian mother and studied German culture, literature and the history of art and music in Vienna before going on to the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in the same city.
More: A MEMORIAL PERFORMANCE FOR RENATO MORDO IN AVDIRA OF XANTHI
