As part of events for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024, the 1st grade students of the 14st High School of Rhodes watched the dramatized documentary "THE DISCIPLES OF UBERTO PRIMO", on February 2024, XNUMX at the Municipal Theater of Rhodes.
Through the adventures of nine students, the film tells the story of the Holocaust in Greece, and more specifically in Thessaloniki, where 96% of the city's Jews were sent to Auschwitz.
Our School thanks the Jewish Community of Rhodes and Mr. Krikonis for the introduction to the film and for the interesting historical review of the Jews of Rhodes from their settlement on our island until 1944, when they were arrested by the Nazis and with the Jews of Kos were sent to Piraeus and from there to Auschwitz.
During the Holocaust almost all the Jews of Rhodes perished, only 151 people survived.
The program of events began on 18.7.2023, with the screening of the film "Phoenix", at the summer cinema "Rodon", in collaboration with the film library of the Goethe-Institut and with the kind free grant of the rights by the distribution company Rosebud.21 . It is a German production film, directed by Christian Petzold. The case unfolds in post-war Berlin. A Jewish singer, having managed to survive the concentration camps, undergoes a series of plastic surgeries to rejuvenate her face. When they are done, she will look for her husband who she suspects betrayed her to the Nazis.
From July 21 to 25, 2022, the Holocaust commemoration of the Jews of the Dodecanese took place in Rhodes and Kos. I.K. Rhodes organized this year again a rich program of cultural and artistic activities. At the same time, the new Administration - with symbolic ceremonies of honor dedicated to the outgoing President Bella Resti and the late Morris Magrizos - marked the history and course of I.K. of Rhodes, but also its commitment to development and progress.
The program of events started on 21.7.2022, with the screening of the film "Denial" at the summer cinema "Rodon". This is the well-known film that tells the true story of the legal battle waged by the intrepid Deborah I. Lipstadt against David Irving, who sued her for defamation when she accused him of denying the Holocaust.
On 22.7.2022, visitors proceeded to the Jewish cemetery where the askavot (memorial prayers) were recited and then participated in the Shabbat services conducted by Rabbi Gabriel Negrin of Athens.
The events of the South Aegean Region and the Israeli Community of Rhodes for the Day of Remembrance of the Greek Jews of Rhodes and Kos who were exterminated by the Nazis during the Holocaust took place in Rhodes, on 26.7.2021, at the Synagogue of the island and at the Holocaust Memorial, observing all necessary sanitary measures due to the pandemic.
At the Kal Shalom Synagogue, in the Medieval Town of Rhodes, the event began with a memorial service by the Rabbi of Athens Gabriel Negrin and the lighting of candles in memory of the victims. The representatives of the Authorities and the Israeli Communities were welcomed by the Vice President of the Administrative Committee of I.K. Rodou Daniel Benardout, General Treasurer of KISE. This was followed by the greetings of the officials: of District Governor Giorgos Hatzimarkou, of the Mayor Antonios Kambourakis and the President of KISE David Saltiel. Afterwards, the keynote speaker Ambassador Mr. Christodoulos Lazaris, President of IHRA, spoke about the work of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and the importance that this year's Greek presidency of IHRA attaches to the preservation of historical memory through education. At the same time, Mr. Lazaris highlighted the planned actions aimed at promoting research and highlighting the history of the Holocaust of the Jewish communities in Greece.
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On January 27, 1945, the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp was liberated by Soviet troops.
In November 2005 during the sixtieth General Assembly of its Representatives the United Nations decided to designate January 27 as the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims and urged the member countries of the organization to develop educational programs that will transfer the memory of this tragedy to the upcoming generations.
The Jews of Rhodes with their long history and rich cultural tradition lived here peacefully for more than 2.200 years. Their historic journey was brutally interrupted on July 23, 1944, when the 2.500 Jews of Rhodes, together with the 100 Jews of Kos, were exterminated in Hitler's concentration camps.
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