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A photograph of historical and symbolic importance depicted three girls in a London station. They had been saved from Nazi destruction. 84 years later, their families managed to get in touch thanks to a BBC special.
The photograph, depicting three Jewish girls fleeing Nazi Germany, is one of the most iconic of the Holocaust, having acquired enormous symbolic significance. It was taken at Liverpool Street station in London and for 80 years the identity of the three girls was a mystery. Until today.
Inge Adamecz did not remember when the photo in question was taken and for decades she was unaware of its existence. The then five-year-old Inge was leaving Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), together with her 10-year-old sister, Ruth. Her mother and younger sister were taken to Auschwitz where they were murdered along with thousands of other Jews.
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A completely different approach to the controversial subject of the Holocaust of the Jews, which sometimes occupies the cinema, was successfully attempted by the British director Jonathan Glazer with the film "The zone of interest" which was screened in the official competition section of the 76th edition to mostly positive reviews.
What might a Jewish concentration camp like Auschwitz have meant to the very Germans who were responsible for running it? How did these people live at that time whose job it was to exterminate hundreds, if not thousands of other people on a daily basis? A routine job. What was their personal life like?
On these questions the film "steps" with Rudolph Höss (Christian Friedel), commandant of the Auschwitz camp, as the central figure. We follow the daily life of a large family man with a pot belly, whose house is located in the suburbs. The wife feels joy in the shot that this situation offers her. They have a dog, children, service staff and deal with the daily small problems that any family can have regardless of the season. One of them is the possible transfer of the commander which his wife does not want because she will lose the harmony that the current situation offers her.
More: CANNES 2023: THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST AS WE'VE NEVER SEEN IT
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On Monday 8 May 2023 the presentation of the Jewish Museum of Greece took place at the Ionian Center "Women's voices from Auschwitz - Four Greek Jewish women tell the story". The presentation was prefaced by the Director of the EME, Janet Battinou, while four renowned historians spoke about the testimonies of four Greek Jewish women from Auschwitz.
Η Odette Varon – Vassar, Historian, EME Associate, opened the round of presentations by referring to the special characteristics of women who survived and decided to write about the Holocaust, highlighting the aspects that the gender perspective opens up in the discussion of military literature. Then he talked about her Nata Osmo-Gatenio and her book, "From Corfu to Birkenau and Jerusalem" (ed. Gavrielides, 2005).
Η Carnation Micha, Director of the Balkans, Greece and Cyprus Sector, Yad Vashem, through a video presentation from Yad Vashem, spoke about the Lisa Pinchas and her struggle, not only to survive inside Auschwitz, as she captured it in her book, "Confronting the Holocaust" (B' ed. Jewish Museum of Greece, 2023), but also for her important work afterwards, in post-war Thessaloniki.
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On 18.4.2023 approximately 40 Holocaust survivors were at the head of the March of the Living. 10.000 people took part in the march, in memory of the victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Every year, thousands of young people, Jews and others, from all over the world take part in this march which is organized on the site of the death camp operated by the Nazis in occupied Poland during World War II.
Auschwitz-Birkenau is the symbol of the genocide committed by the Nazi regime against the Jews of Europe. Almost a million people died in this camp between 1940-45. Among them were 80.000 Poles (non-Jews), 25.000 Roma and 20.000 Soviet soldiers. The camp was liberated by the Red Army on January 27, 1945.
More: POLAND: 40 HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN MARCH OF THE LIVING TO AUSCHWITZ
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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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