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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.
More: THESSALONIKI - AUSCHWITZ MEMORIAL MARCH. 80 YEARS SINCE THE DEPARTURE OF THE FIRST WIRE
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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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Commemoration march in honor of the Jewish Community of Kastoria that perished in Auschwitz took place on 26.3.2023 in an event organized by the Municipality of the uninhabited city.
At the head of the symbolic March of Remembrance that started from Omonia Square to the Holocaust Memorial of the Jewish Community was mayor of Kastoria Yannis Korentsidis, o President of the Central Jewish Council of Greece and the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, David Saltiel, the MPs of Kastoria, Zisis Tzikalayas and Olympia Teligioridou, n Consul General of Germany in Thessaloniki, Sibylla Bendick, o President of the Community Assembly of the Israeli Community of Thessaloniki, Solomon Parente and the representative of the latter of a remaining Jewish family of Kastoria Iakovos Eliou, while dozens of citizens participated.
More: MEMORIAL MARCH FOR THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF KASTORIA LOST AT AUSCHWITZ
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The Thessalian Theater participated for the fifth consecutive year in the anniversary events for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023. Its Artistic Director, Kyriaki Spanou, with the support of the French Institute of Larissa, has chosen for this year to call from Athens and offer the Larissa audience the show "Saturday" by the Television Control Center.
The people of Larissa responded by filling the "Kostas Tsianos" Mill Theater and watched this shocking monologue, directed by Irène Bonnaud with the artistic collaboration of Dimitris Alexakis.
Fotini Banou, in an acting feat, unfolded the chronicle of the life and displacement of the Jews of Ioannina. "brought to life" the short story "Sabethai Kabilis" by Dimitris Hatzis and testimonies of survivors, recited poetry, sang (beautifully and faithfully!) Epirotian, Romaniot, Sephardic and camp songs, quoted events, names, dates and all this giving voice to the 11 sculptures "actors", created especially for this show, by the sculptor Cleo Makri.
More: "Saturday" THEATER PERFORMANCE PRESENTED IN LARISA FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
- OPENING OF THE EXHIBITIONS OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF ATHENS – WE FOR THE HOLOCAUST
- OUTDOOR PHOTO EXHIBITION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF ATHENS ON THE HOLOCAUST
- SPECIAL MEETING IN THE PARLIAMENT FOR THE MEMORIAL DAY OF THE GREEK JEWISH MARTYRS
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