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City alarm sirens and church bells rang on 19.4.2023 at noon in the Polish capital, triggering the start of commemorative events for the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The uprising, which broke out on April 19, 1943, is the largest event of Jewish resistance against the Nazis during World War II, an event during which many armed Jews attacked the Nazis.
The presidents of Israel, Isaac Herzog, and Germany, Frank Walter Steinmeier, accompanied by their Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, appeared together in front of the monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto, opposite the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, located at the site of battles during the uprising.
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Today marks 80 years since the departure of the first train that transported 2.400 Thessaloniki Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on March 15, 1943, where the vast majority would meet a tragic death in the gas chambers. The Jews of Thessaloniki are a community intertwined with the history of the city, which marked it in every way.
The Jewish presence in Thessaloniki dates back to ancient times. Already, when the Apostle Paul visited the city, he found a community with its own synagogue and preached there for three Saturdays. The arrival of Spanish-speaking Sephardic Jews from Iberia after the Edict of Alhambra in 1492 brought with it new techniques and professions from the west as well as trade networks. Thessaloniki experienced a rapid development then and soon took on the characteristics of a cosmopolitan city, an economic, spiritual and social crossroads.
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With a rich two days of events the Municipality of Artaion celebrated the Memorial Day of the Jewish Community of Arta again this year. The events started on Saturday 18 March 2023 and ended on Sunday 19, with actions that included an elaborate program of honor for those forcibly displaced and tortured by the Nazi atrocity of the Second World War. The goal of the Municipal Authority, but also of the clubs that contributed to the program of events, was not to forget the crimes against humanity and the grim fate that the Nazis reserved for Jews.
Thus, on Saturday morning, it took place in the spiritual roof of the Skoufas M/F Association "Choral Music from the Concentration Camps", with Antonios Verberis, teacher of the Department of Music Studies, and the Choir of the Department of Music Studies of the University of Ioannina sang.
Then it became "Report to Iosif Lachanas" with speakers Theoharis Vadivoulis, lawyer - graphologist - historical researcher, Bella Aaron, Vice President O.P.A.I.E. and Dorit Perry, representative of the organization "Giving a face to the fallen". This was followed by a tribute from the choir of the 15rd Gymnasium of the Arta Music School with a message from the President of the XNUMX-member group. At Saturday's events, there was also a special tribute to the recently deceased Mayor of Ioannito, Moses Elisaf, with the philologist Katerina Schishinou, speaking about "the end of an era".
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With white balloons and the slogan "never again!", the President of the Republic, officials and a crowd of people participated in the silent memorial march that took place on Sunday, March 19, 2023, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the departure of the first train of Jews from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz , on March 15, 1943.
"With the memorial march we honor the victims of Nazism, fascism, anti-Semitism, we participate in the mourning of their descendants, we listen to the revelatory speech of the few survivors, we join our voice with the thousands of citizens who walk the same route, from the ghettos at the train station, putting into practice the universal slogan NEVER AGAIN", she pointed out Katerina Sakellaropoulou, which participated in the march, from Eleftherias Square to the old railway station. "We are here, in the wake of the tragedy of Tempe, which the entire Greek society is experiencing with feelings of deep devastation, to keep alive the memory of one of the most shameful and painful events of the 20th century," Mrs. Sakellaropoulou said in her speech.
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The roots of the city's collective memory
Next to the only living eyewitnesses of the first act of the drama with the extermination of the Jewish community of Ioannina, in the century-old plane trees of Mavili square, whose bare trunks are captured in the photos - document of that day, three new ones were planted on Friday 24.3.2023 trees, as symbols of preserving collective memory.
On March 25, 1944, the Nazi occupation troops gathered at Pl. Mavili all the members of the still thriving Jewish community of the city, with a history of 2.000 years of presence in Ioannina. Nearly 2.000 souls, after being counted, separated by gender and age, boarded hundreds of trucks and began their journey to hell. Few survived and even fewer managed to return to their home town. The wound in the soul of the city - and not only the Jewish community - remains open even today, where the members of the Community now number a few dozen, with deaths far outnumbering births for decades.
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