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On March 4 and 5, 2016, an educational seminar was organized in Kavala, under the auspices of the Department of History and Ethnology of the Democritus University of Thrace (D.P.Th.) and in collaboration with the Philological Association of Kavala, on the topic "Approaching the Holocaust on its scale local: the Jewish community of Kavala", which was hosted at the Greek High School of Kavala (LEK).
The first day of the seminar on 4.3.2016 started with presentations by the Lecturer of Teaching History D.P.Th. Mr. Angelos Palikidis with the topic "Who is afraid of the dead?", the historian, professor of the Hellenic Open University Ms. Odette Varon-Vasar with the topic "Greek Jews in the Occupation: displacement, resistance, survival. History and memory", the Ph.D. in Modern and Contemporary History of A.U.Th. Mr. Vasilis Rizzaleo on "The Jews of Kavala: the history of a forgotten community" and the Social Anthropology lecturer D.P.Th. Mrs. Valia Kravva on the topic "Two Jewish women remember: the management of hunger in Greece during the Occupation through life narratives". The presentations were followed by a discussion moderated by Mr. Ag. Palikidis. The first day ended with a reception which was kindly prepared and offered by the ladies of the LEK, led by the president Ms. Samara, as well as fellow religious ladies from Larissa and Thessaloniki, who prepared traditional Sephardic dishes.
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On 24.2.2016, the Ministers of Defense of the Republic of Cyprus and Israel, Christoforos Fokaidis and Moshe Yaalon, took part in an unveiling ceremony of a Cyprus-Israeli Friendship monument, at the camp of Lieutenant Vassiliou Kapotas, in Nicosia. It is the former BMH (British Military Hospital), the colonial-era British Military Hospital, where approximately 2.200 babies were born, the fruits of love of thousands of young Jews, men and women, survivors of the Holocaust, held in the detention camps of Karaoli Famagusta, Dekelia and Xylotympos , whom the British had imprisoned in the years 1946-1949, to prevent them from immigrating to Palestine. One of those children, 68-year-old Zehavit Blumenfeld, who was born at BMH on May 3, 1948, will be at the unveiling ceremony today at Camp Capota. I met her in February 2011, during my journalistic assignment in Tel Aviv, and she told me, in an interview for the newspaper, that her mother and father had been held by the British in the Dekelia concentration camp since 1947, and that her parents they always told her that the Cypriots helped the Jews a lot.
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On Tuesday, February 9, 2016, in the "Stories" program of SKAI TV, the journalist Sia Kosioni presented the topic "Holocaust, 71 years later: The survivors and the persecutors of their executioners". The journalist met and spoke with Messrs. Robbie Varsano and Isaac Mizan, surviving concentration camp hostages, as well as Gerge and Beate Klarsfeld, the famous Nazi hunters.
View HERE is the SHOW
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"The 7 dwarfs of Auschwitz" and Mengele's experiments
On May 19, 1944, Perla Ovitz and her family walked through the gates of Auschwitz, under the stunned gaze of SS guards. Standing no taller than a five-year-old child, the two well-dressed men and the five ladies in their plumed dresses and theatrical make-up did not seem to understand that they had "landed" in one of the hell-camps set up by the Nazi death machine. of the Third Reich throughout Europe, in contrast to the remaining "links" of the enormous human chain that were led directly from the death wagons to the gas chambers...
The Ovics came from the small village of Rosavela in northern Romania. Their father Isaac married twice and fathered seven dwarf children and three of normal height. The "Lilliputian" members of the family had a talent for music and following their mother's admonition "...for better or for worse, never be apart. Be united, guard each other, live for each other...” they formed their own troupe - Lilliput Troupe - in the 30s. For many years they performed in Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, gaining great fame, until their journey was violently interrupted when they were taken to Auschwitz.
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The Greek edition, which is not completely identical to the French, of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld's "Memoirs" (translated by Karina Lampsa, published by Capon, December 2015) and their visit to Greece for the presentation of the book is good occasion to discuss a painful case, which everything around us pushes us to forget. This Franco-German couple of activists was destined, it seems, by history and fate to devote their lives to the prosecution of fugitive Nazi criminals: they meet by chance on a platform of the Paris metro, on the day of Eichmann's abduction by the Israelis. Serge's father, a Romanian Jew, had been murdered in Auschwitz, while Beate's father served as an ordinary Wehrmacht soldier.
Post-war Germany's attitude towards its Nazi past is not one and the same, it has phases, changes and variations. However, one thing is certain: after the trials of some famous Nazi names, the integration of Nazi criminals into the political, economic and cultural life of Germany will follow immediately after, during the 50s. After all, the Cold War has begun which is reshaping the political stakes around the world, defining new allies and new enemies. West Germany is essential in one camp and East in the other.