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On 11.9.2016 the following article was published in the newspaper KATHIMERINI with the title "It's 1943 and I give you my child" by Iota Myrtsiotis regarding the rescue story of David Barzilai.
Winter of 1943. The Jewish population of Thessaloniki experiences inhuman restrictions by the Nazi troops. A few days before the mass displacement, several parents "hand over" their newborn children to the "Agios Stylianos" nursery to protect them. The separation was unbearable. Many mothers could not stand it. They came back and took them with them forever. Some infants remained. Among them is David Barzilai. He was born on March 4, 43, ten days before the first train left for the death camps.
What happened to the declared "exhibited" newborn from Thessaloniki who survived the Holocaust? How many other Jewish parents tried to save their babies in this way? What was the later life like for these children? The questions were stuck in the mind of Aigli Bruskus, a social anthropologist, when she was studying the archives of the nursery "Agios Stylianos" for her book
"Because of your judgment I give you my child" (ed. En Tomo SYMEPE). The issue of hidden babies in the nursery opened a new chapter.
The answers came later with persistent research in three official archives, and the evidence of one case was to overturn much: to erase a name from the long list of Thessalonian Jewish victims of the Holocaust, to clear truths and lies from the "fabricated" records, to allow for the survivor to rewrite his autobiography, shed new light on the complex and conflicting roles played by various people in order to save lives during the Occupation – dosilogs, police, registrars, management and nursery staff who had the courage to hide infants Jews under Merten's nose.
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The following was posted on the website of the Ministry of Education news about the event, which took place on 1η July 2016, at the Ministry, for the students who participated in this year's educational visit to Auschwitz. See here the video from the speech of the Minister of Education Mr. Nikos Fili.
In today's event at the ministry, the Minister of Education, Research and Religious Affairs Nikos Filis, in the presence of the General Secretary of Religious Affairs Giorgos Kalatzis, spoke to a group of students from general and vocational high schools in Athens, Patras and Larissa who visited the Auschwitz crematoria, after participating in a video production competition about the holocaust. This program started three years ago with 20 students and now the participants have reached 81.
Nikos Filis emphasized that if the public schools of Hitler's Germany had operated more democratically, tragedies and the Holocaust would have been avoided and that the Jews of Europe paid for pre-existing racist stereotypes.
More: THE STUDENTS ON THE HOLOCAUST AND RACISM – EVENT AT THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
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One of the videos that was awarded in this year's Student Video Creation Competition you can see it HERE. It was created by a group of students of the 1st GEL Palaio Faliro.
This essentially educational competition has been established three years ago by the General Secretariat of Religions with the cooperation of the Jewish Museum of Greece. Distinguished students had the opportunity to take part in an educational visit to Auschwitz. A special award ceremony will follow and all awarded videos will be posted on the website of G.G.Thriskeviam and on its you tube account.
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On 14.5.2016, the following article by Ms. Ioannas Fotiadis was published in the newspaper KATHIMERINI entitled "THE 548 DAYS THAT CHANGED THE LIVES OF TWO WOMEN" which refers to the story of the rescue of the family of Ms. Rozina Asser - Pardo.
The route from the ghetto of Thessaloniki to Stratou Avenue, a risky move that proved to be liberating, has never faded from the memory of Mrs. Rozina Asser-Pardo. "My mother took off the star from the coat, she advised me to be careful and hold my little sister tightly by the hand until we meet Mrs. Phaedra," Mrs. Pardo, a member of one of the few, tells "K" of Jewish families who survived in Thessaloniki thanks to the shelter offered to them by Christians. "In fact, we are the only ones who hid in the heart of the city, on Tsimiski Street, near the German headquarters which was then housed in the Majestic Hotel." The two girls, ten and five years old, escape from the ghetto, where the Jews of Thessaloniki had been moved, to find refuge in the home of the Karakotsou family, where they are welcomed by a Greek girl of the same age, 13-year-old Maria, who having left her own family back, she works there as a domestic helper. "They never explained to me exactly who they were, but I knew that I shouldn't talk to anyone about their existence," Maria Kavoura tells "K" by phone from Thessaloniki. "I had the best memories of the mother of the family, Mrs. Eugenia," says Mrs. Kavoura, "she had me as her fourth daughter." "The liberation took place and we separated," she notes, "I often wondered what happened to them and where they were. But in those days it was hard to find traces of other people."
More: THE RESCUE STORY OF THE FAMILY OF ROZINA ASSER - PARDO
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In the magazine CURRENT on 4-10.3.2016 an article by Yiannis Symeonidis was published about the Austrian t. G.G. of the UN Kurt Waldheim and his connection to the annihilation of thousands of people during the years of the Occupation. The article includes a comment by the president of the Israeli Community of Ioannina, Mr. Moses Elisaf.
SEE HERE THE ARTICLE