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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.
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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.
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The opening of the double outdoor photographic exhibition in memory of the victims of the Holocaust was carried out by the Mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis, and the President of the Jewish Museum of Greece, Makis Matsas, on Friday 3.2.2023. The exhibition will last throughout February.
The two exhibitions on Vasilissis Olga Street "The Holocaust of the Greek Jews 1941 - 1944" and "Trauma as Memory and Life" are organized by the Municipality of Athens in collaboration with the Jewish Museum of Greece and the artist Artemis Alkalai, as well as with the curation and coordination of the Culture Office of the Municipality of Athens.
On the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, which is celebrated every year on January 27, the Municipality of Athens for one more year sends a resounding message through the two exhibitions "never again", so that humanity will not experience such atrocities again.
The opening of the exhibition was attended, among others, by the Ambassador of Israel, Mr. Noam Katz, the President of the Greece-Israel Friendship Parliamentary Group, Dimitris Kairides and the Vice President, Olga Kefalogianni, on behalf of the Central Israeli Council of Greece, the General Treasurer of KISE Mr. Daniel Benardout, the President of the Jewish Community of Athens, Albertos Taramboulos, the Director of the Community Tally Mayr and the Director of the Jewish Museum of Greece, Janet Battinou.
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On the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust on January 27, 2023, the Municipality of Athens commemorated the day with the symbolic illumination of the City Hall with the WeRemember logo and the double outdoor photo exhibition – a tribute to the Greek-Jewish communities, which will last until the end of February.
The double outdoor photography exhibition started on Saturday, January 28, 2023 at the stands of Vas. Olgas Street in collaboration with the Jewish Museum of Greece, which provided photographic material from its archive, with snapshots of the life of Greek Jews before and during of World War II, with the visual artist Artemis Alkalai, who approaches the subject and memory of the Holocaust using the materials of domestic art: fabric, canvas, paper, thread, wood and poses issues of freedom and memory, loss and trauma, from a visual point of view and with the care and coordination of the Culture Office of the Municipality of Athens.
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