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On the sidelines of the opening of the parallel exhibition of the Greek participation in the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale in Thessaloniki, the Minister of Environment and Energy, Kostas Skrekas, made on Wednesday 30 June 2021, a series of visits to the International Exhibition of Thessaloniki (TIF), at the construction site of the Museum Holocaust, as well as the International Center for Digital Transformation and Digital Skills (DT&S). The Minister was accompanied by the Deputy Minister of Environment and Energy, Nikos Tagaras and the General Secretary of Spatial Planning and Urban Environment, Efthimios Bakoyannis.
Among the stations of the visit was the site where the Holocaust Museum will be erected. At the initiative of the Ministry of Environment and Energy, important urban planning and spatial planning issues were resolved so that the Commercial Station of Thessaloniki was transformed into a symbol of memory and respect for the value of human life and dignity. The construction of the Museum at this particular point was qualified due to its historical importance, as during the Second World War the "death trains" departed from there.
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On March 15, 1943, at the old railway station of Thessaloniki, the first death train to Auschwitz - Birkenau blew its whistle. Seventy-eight years after the departure of the first train of a total of nineteen that transported on a journey of no return approximately 50.000 Jews of Thessaloniki, the Municipality of Thessaloniki pays tribute to the victims of Nazi atrocities through a televised tribute.
The "March of Remembrance" which has been established to commemorate the black anniversary of the departure of the first train to Auschwitz is not possible to take place due to the measures in force to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
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"My dear child, I am writing you these lines with eyes full of tears and a heart frozen with terror," Sarina Saltiel wrote to her son Maurice on March 17, 1943, two days after the departure of the first "death train." for Auschwitz-Birkenau. Two days after that first whistle blew at the old Thessaloniki train station, marking the countdown for the city's once-thriving Jewish community.
Today 15.3.2021 marks seventy-eight years since the first death mission in the camps-hells of the Nazi death machine and through this letter of Sarina Saltiel - one of the many she collected, studied and included in her book "Don't forget me" ( ed. Alexandria) the historian Leon Saltiel- vividly revives all the "anguish that progressively grows, the work of an experienced sadist", that the Jews of Thessaloniki felt and also the life in the ghetto, shortly before the violent expulsion of the Jews of Thessaloniki.
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“On one of my trips, I received an invitation to dinner from a distant aunt. To please me, as I am from Greece, he asked me if I would like some ouzo. In order not to appear rude, I agreed and found myself in front of the strangest bottle of ouzo I had ever seen!” Leon Saltiel tells the Athens/Macedonian News Agency.
His unquenchable passion for reconstructing the history of ancient objects combined with his deep scientific knowledge and the expert eye of the man who searches for such objects in antique shops around the world, made him curious about the bottle in detail. "The label was written in Greek, stuck to an old glass bottle. It read: "Excellent ouzo INTO - Double Distillation - A. Bourla Brothers Distillery, Viktor Ugo 3, Thessaloniki". The label above surprised me even more. Written in Hebrew, it stated that this product was "kosher for Pesach", meaning it met the dietary rules of this Jewish holiday. There was also a tassel hanging from the top, with the Star of David stamped into a lead circle. I've never seen anything like it before!”, says Leon Saltiel. In fact, as he says, this bottle was probably a gift from his grandfather to his aunt's father when he visited them decades ago.
More: A BOTTLE OF OUZO WITH A CURRENT NAME: LABELED BY BOURLA DISTRICT
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The Self-Help Promotion Program is a program of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.P.Th), it operates with the funding of the Ministry of Health and the cooperation of OKANA and is housed in the Vardari area.
The main axis of the Program's operation is the support of people who face a problem of addiction to legal and illegal substances as well as their family and friends. The Program is open and all its services are provided free of charge. The main goal of the Program is to support people with an addiction problem based on the principles of self-help/mutual help.
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