On the occasion of the publication of the book "Berry Nahmias - Cry for Tomorrow" (published by Alexandria, 2020), on Sunday 22.1.2023, at the packed Community Center of I.K. Athens, there was an event that "opened" the Holocaust Remembrance Day events on behalf of I.K. Athens. During the event, the enriched re-edition of the book was presented and the person and work of Berrys Nahmias for the preservation and especially for the transmission of the memory of the Holocaust was honored more generally. Speeches, memories, viewing of photos and documents framed the event and highlighted the strength and charismatic personality of Berrys Nahmia.
The event was organized by I.K. of Athens and Alexandria publications. The event was organized and coordinated by the historian Odette Varon-Vassar, who is the editor of the book and signs the extensive foreword of the new edition - after research in the Berrys Nahmia Archive - recording, for the first time, the post-war work Berry's for supporting hostage survivors and Holocaust education in Greece.
More: PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK "BERRY NAHMIAS - CRY FOR TOMORROW"
In view of the 27th January, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 25thο The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival has announced that it will include the tribute in its program "Adio querida: From Thessaloniki to Auschwitz - 80 years" which will include the Movies «Shoah” (1985) by Claude Lanzmann, "The Golem" (1920) directed by Paul Wegener and Karl Beze, "Salonique, ville du silence / Thessaloniki, city of silence" (2006) by Maurice Amarazi, The documentary "Heroes of Salonika / Heroes tis Thessaloniki" (2021) by Tom Barkai, "Kiss to the children" (2011) by Vassilis Loule and "Out of history" (2012) by Fofos Terzidou.
The 25thο The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival will be held this year from March 2 to 12, 2023 and will include the specific tribute on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Jews of Thessaloniki.
The following is a related article published on the website flix.gr On 24.1.2023.
Adio querida (or adio kerida): A traditional Sephardic love song written in Ladino, it talks about separation, love, death. In the area of urban legend of the Jewish community, it is said that "Goodbye beloved" was sung by the Jews just before entering the trains that would take them to the Nazi concentration camps.
Her Odette Varon - Vassar*
Newspaper THE NEWS, 23.1.2023: Her book, published in 1989, was the first in Greece by a camp survivor. In the new version and the epimeter, the evolution of the memory of the Holocaust is highlighted.
The first reading of Berrys Nahmia's manuscript, in the distant summer of 1987, was seminal for me. It was as if the author, my beloved aunt who had never spoken to me about the subject, took me by the hand and put me into the world of the camp: the world of death for the many and survival for the lucky few, world of absurdity, where there is no reason, where arbitrariness is law, men have no name and women have no hair. Where there is no "why". The reader travels with her piled on the train, enters the camp and faces the radical evil, but also the enormous difficulties in daily survival in a universe that has nothing to do with the normal world.
The International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust was celebrated by Parliament of Greeks and Municipalities of the country, participating in this year's WE REMEMBER campaign, with the lighting of buildings and the display of the campaign logos on the facades of the Parliament, Town Halls and emblematic landmarks throughout Greece on the evening of January 26 to 27, 2023.
The aim of the campaign is to illuminate the Holocaust Memorial so that humanity does not forget the crime of the extermination of 6 million Jews committed by the Nazis during the implementation of the "Final Solution", to learn from history so that the crime is not repeated.
Η facade of the Parliament illuminated with the slogan "We remember" with a photo of children imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp.
The its logo WE REMEMBER on the uniform of the prisoners of Auschwitz, with the yellow Star of David and the barbed wire was displayed in the Town Halls of Of AthensOf Of VeriaOf Preveza, in her Clock Tower Xanthi, in the port of Chania. A banner with the same model was posted in its two Town Halls Chalkida. In Thessaloniki, the campaign logo was included on the poster posted at the city's City Hall. The Town Halls Ioannina and Larissa were illuminated with special colors. Its Town Hall was illuminated with the WE REMEMBER logo Corfu and Spiritual Center of the Municipality of Ioannito, on 28.1.23, during the central event of the Region of Epirus and the I.K. Ioannina for Holocaust Remembrance Day.
For the implementation of these actions, KISE collaborated with the Hellenic Parliament and the Municipalities. The Jewish Museum of Greece responded to KISE's request and EME's graphic designer Haya Cohen designed both the model that was displayed on the facade of the Hellenic Parliament, and the model that was displayed in the Municipalities.
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ABOUT:
MESSAGES
POST OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC ON HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
MESSAGE OF THE PRIME MINISTER FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
POST OF THE ISRAEL AMBASSADOR ON HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
EVENTS IN GREECE
#WE REMEMBER 2023 HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CAMPAIGN
EVENTS FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023 AT I.K. GREECE
EME & GAITE INSTITUTE ORGANIZE FILM SCREENING FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
BOOK PRESENTATION "SHOUT FOR TOMORROW"
EVENT IN THESSALONIKI FOR THE NEW ERT SERIES "THE BRACELET OF FIRE"
BOOK PRESENTATION "ELIAS PETROPOULOS. For the Jews of Salonica"
TRIKALA: HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
THE KISE FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023 - Meeting with the Special Envoys on Anti-Semitism
KIS FOR THE HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY 2023 -Meeting with the Special Envoys on Anti-Semitism
PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK "BERRY NAHMIAS - CRY FOR TOMORROW"
THE THEATER PERFORMANCE "Saturday" PRESENTED IN LARISA FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
THE EVENT OF THE REGION OF ATTICA & THE I.K. ATHENS FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
THE EVENT OF I.K. CHALKIDAS FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
EVENTS OF THE THESSALIA REGION AND OF THE I.K. VOLOU FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
THE EVENT OF THE EPIRO REGION AND THE I.K. IOANNINE FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
SPECIAL MEETING IN THE PARLIAMENT FOR THE MEMORIAL DAY OF THE GREEK JEWISH MARTYRS
PAKETHRA TOURS STUDENTS TO XANTHI JEWISH MEMORIAL SITES FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF ARTAS MUSIC SCHOOL FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
THE 2ND PRIMARY SCHOOL OF TRIKALON HONORED HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
EVENT IN CHANIA FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
EVENTS OF THE THESSALIA REGION AND OF THE I.K. VOLOU FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
PIERCE SERIES OF EVENTS FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
ACTION OF THE 2ND EPAL OF RETHYMNO FOR THE INTERNATIONAL 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
THE "NEVER AGAIN" OF THE CHILDREN IN LARISA FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
3rd GEL KAVALAS: LEARNING THE HISTORY AND TRAGIC FATE OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF KAVALAS
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF THE 1ST GE.L. KILKIS FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF THE 8th GEL IOANNINE FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY
EVENTS ABROAD
THE PLENARY OF THE PARLIAMENT OF CYPRUS OBSERVED A MINUTE OF SILENCE ON HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
EVENT OF THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF GREECE IN NEW YORK FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
ARTICLES – INTERVIEWS – TESTIMONIALS
BERRY NAHMIAS: A TESTIMONY. A SCREAM. A LIFETIME
INTERVIEW OF GEN. SECRETARY KISE ON HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023
ARTICLE OF GEN. SECRETARY KISE ON HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023: "EVERY PERSON HAS HIS NAME"
ARTICLE LEON SALTIEL: Thoughts on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023
ARTICLE OF GEN. SECRETARY KISE ON HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2023: "EVERY PERSON HAS HIS NAME"
"THE BRACELET OF FIRE": BEATRIKI SAIA MAGRIZOU SPEAKS TO ERT ABOUT THE REAL STORY BEHIND THE SERIES
"THE CRYING GIRL" - THE SHOCKING STORY OF A PHOTO FROM THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS OF JOHNINE
NAKI BEGA, AUSCHWITZ PRISONER 77092 SAYS TO "K": "LET US DIE NOW. DENBORUMELLO"
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We learn from the past to safeguard the future What can we do so that the past and the Holocaust of 6 million Jews are not forgotten: - Post on social media, at hashtag #WeRemember, photos and materials about the Holocaust. - Post your photo holding a piece of paper with the inscription #WeRemember - Ask your friends to do the same. |
The Holocaust Remembrance Campaign #WE REMEMBER continues this year.
The #WE REMEMBER started years ago - on the initiative of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) - as social media awareness campaign to preserve the memory of the millions of victims of Nazism.
Purpose: to publicly declare opposition to anti-Semitism and all forms of hatred and racism and to promote democracy, pluralism and respect for human rights.
** PRINT YOUR WE REMEMBER BOARD: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
And for 2023, national Parliaments and Municipalities around the world will have a leading role in the campaign, which will illuminate iconic buildings with the campaign logo and message about the Holocaust.
Greece will participate again this year with the illumination of the building of the Hellenic Parliament, as well as many City Halls throughout Greece, on the evening of the 26th to 27η January 2023.
View here the official website of the campaign including videos, testimonials, materials and action proposals for Holocaust Remembrance 2023.
Let's once again give our own potential to the campaign.
Research - Remember - Post