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Details: Created : January 26, 2023

The Presidium of the KISE, the Special Envoy of Greece for the Fight against Anti-Semitism and the Protection of Holocaust Remembrance, Ambassador Ms. Chrysoula Aliferi, and her predecessor, Ambassador Mr. Dimitris Giannakakis, participate in this year's Holocaust Remembrance campaign #WEREMEMBER, in context of a meeting that took place at the KISE Offices on 25.1.2023.

The commitment to the preservation of Memory, the promotion of Education through cultural and informative actions, educational programs, the national action plan against anti-Semitism, were some of the topics discussed during the meeting.

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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"

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In view of the 27^th January, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 25th^ο 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 25th^ο 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.

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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.

More: BERRY NAHMIAS: A TESTIMONY. A SCREAM. A LIFETIME

Details: Created : January 24, 2023

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 Athens Of Veria 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.