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The screening of the documentary entitled "Lost Yannina", directed by Nikos Chryssikakis with the scientific supervision of Assoc. Professor of Museology Esther Solomon, took place on 25.3.2025 at the General State Archives - Historical Museum Archive of Epirus, on March 25, the day on which 81 years have passed since the day the German Nazis gathered the approximately 1.870 Jews of Yannina, whom they then led to the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps. The event was organized by the Municipality of Ioannina, the I.K. of Ioannina and the Art History Laboratory of the University of Ioannina.
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A small street in the Castle of Ioannina bears the name of a great citizen of Ioannina... It bears the name of the man, the doctor, the scientist, the Mayor... Moses Elisaf! This is Ioustinianou Street, where the Synagogue is located, which -two years after his death- was renamed Moses Elisaf Street, by decision of the Municipality.
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The president of PASOK, Nikos Androulakis, paid tribute to the late Moses Elisaf (26.4.2023) before leaving Ioannina where he was in the context of his pre-election campaign.
On his visit to the last residence of the Mayor of Ioanniton, he was accompanied by the widow of Moses Elisaf, Cleopatra Hatzigianni-Elisaf.
It is recalled that Moses Elisaf passed away on February 17, being the acting Mayor of Ioannitas and at the same time the only Jewish Mayor in Europe.
SOURCE: THE STEP, 26.4.2023
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On January 28, 2023, the event of the Region of Epirus, the Gani Foundation and the I.K. Ioannina for Holocaust Remembrance Day. The program included two extremely interesting speeches: by the Rector of the University of Ioannina, Anna Batistatos, on "The theory of eugenics from the time of Darwin to the Holocaust" and by Dr. Philosophy by Maria Stratsani on the topic "Art in the death camps". This was followed by a small concert by the string quartet of the Municipal Conservatory of Ioannina by Gerasimos Lolis, Alexandros Lolis, Alexandros Theoharis and Ambrosios Vlachopoulos, with the soprano Irini Dova. KISE was represented at the event by G.G. Victor Eliezer who delivered a greeting.
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On Saturday January 29, 2022, the Regional Governor of Epirus, Mr. Alexandros Kahrimanis, in collaboration with the Mayor of the city, Mr. Moses Elisaf, the I.K. Ioannina, the Joseph & Esther Gani Foundation and the Spiritual Center of the Municipality of Ioannina, organized an event for Holocaust Remembrance Day, in the presence of the Israeli ambassador to Greece, Mr. Yossi Amrani. The event took place without the presence of an audience and was broadcast in live streaming from the YouTube channel of the Municipality of Ioannito.
The program of the event included greetings from Epirus Regional Governor Alexandros Kahrimanis, Israel's Ambassador to Greece Yossi Amrani and the Mayor of Ioannina Moses Elisaf.
The journalist and writer Thanasis Yalketsis was the main speaker of the event, on the theme: "The memory of evil as an antidote to hatred and indifference".
A musical program followed with works by Ernst Krenek and Paul Hindemith.