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The past is text, the present, image. British creator Steve McQueen balances on this line for 4 hours and 26 minutes in his documentary "Occupied city", which was recently screened in Athens. Amsterdam today, to be precise the years of the corona virus and the quarantine, and during the Second World War. No archival material, photos or videos from the period 1940-1945. Only the voice of actress Melanie Hyams leads us on a strange journey, based on the book "Atlas" (2019), by the Dutch writer and producer Bianca Stiger, McQueen's wife. For years he collected addresses and incidents from the large Jewish community of Amsterdam, which was 75% exterminated during the five years of German occupation of the city. The edition includes 2.000 addresses and stories, the film, 130.
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The President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou, as part of her visit to Poland for the 19th Informal Meeting of the Heads of State of the Arraiolos Group (11.10.24), went to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
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The 93-year-old, today, Savvas Cohen, former director of the OSE, during his recent visit to the Railway Museum of Thessaloniki, in the area of Eleftherios Kordelios, was informed by those in charge of the site about the existence of two boxcars, of those used for the transportation of Jewish citizens to the extermination camps of the Third Reich.
A Jew himself, he "bowed" to the burden of historical memory and decided to take on the costs of their repair, with the aim of keeping alive the memory of those who were heinously lost during the Second World War.
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It was Monday, August 9, 1943, when the residents of the prefecture of Florina witnessed an inhumane and horrifying sight, as a result of a primitive and unprecedented barbarity: On a crude scaffold and in plain view, the corpses of 15 Greek citizens were hung, now lifeless corpses, victims of the brutality of the Nazi German occupation troops.
More: FLORINA IN THE GERMAN OCCUPATION. THE 15 HANGERS ON THE BRANCH
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Of Ilias Maglini, Kathimerini, 9.7.2024:
Perhaps the shortest cliché of our time is the term fake news. Fake news, in other words. But what about false History? Fake History, that is. It is an older "species". It predates the Internet and social networks. And, usually, false History has long had another, very convenient, term: urban legend. Examples? Many. For example, that Marie Antoinette had said of the starving French people, "why don't they eat sponge cake?".
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