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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
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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
