The program Cultural Memory History Actions, invites undergraduate and postgraduate students (regardless of university and field of study), teachers, technical students and performers from Macedonia and Thrace (18-40 years old) to register for the free workshop "One wardrobe, three cities, one story".
On March 3-4, 1943, our Greek-Jewish fellow citizens were arrested by the Bulgarian fascist occupation forces in the cities of Serres, Drama, Kavala, Xanthi, Komotini and Alexandroupoli. They were then sent to the Treblinka extermination camp in Poland, where they were exterminated. The workshop is therefore being organized on the occasion of the 2023th anniversary of the violent seizure and extermination of the members of the Jewish communities in the region in 80 and is part of a wider tribute that the program is working on in collaboration with other bodies of the AMTH region .
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Shocking images from the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria are being published for the first time in a collection of photographs donated to Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum, the organization announced Wednesday.
One of them shows a crowd of smiling, well-dressed middle-aged German men and women standing casually as a Nazi officer smashes a shop window. In another, officers carry stacks of Jewish books, apparently to be burned. Another image shows a Nazi officer pouring gasoline on the pews of a synagogue before setting it on fire.
Yad Vashem, a Holocaust memorial center, released the photos on the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
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The Holocaust did not begin with camps, ghettos and deportations. It started with words, with words of hatred and division!
Claims Conference, on the occasion of the tragic 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht, re-proposes the educational campaign #ItStartedWithWords and the associated website which includes survivor testimonies, educational materials, digital exhibitions of museums from around the world, quizzes and videos. See the material here.
On today's 84th anniversary of the night of 9-10 November 1938, recorded in history as "Kristallnacht", we reflect on our debt and responsibility to the new generation. Because it is our generation's duty and responsibility to pass on knowledge and preserve memory to future generations.
Η "Crystal Night" it was the beginning of the systematic actions of the extermination of the Jews, the springboard for the implementation of the "Final Solution" planned by the Hitler regime for the total extermination of the Jews. It was the Night that marked humanity's darkest page, the holocaust, with the destruction, desecration and burning of hundreds of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Germany and Austria. They broke shop windows, looted and burned books...
Today we remember that dark Night, reflect on where intolerance and anti-Semitism can lead humanity, and worry when in the Europe of 2022 the serpent's egg hatches again.
Tonight we turn on the lights of civilization, solidarity and respect for human rights, and every day we oppose knowledge and memory against darkness and oblivion.
Athens, November 9, 2022
CENTRAL BOARD OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN GREECE
The international "March of the Living" giving meaning to this year's 84th anniversary of the "Night of Kristallnacht", organizes for the third consecutive year the global campaign #LetThereBeLight, with which a universal message of resistance to anti-Semitism and all forms of racism is spread.
On November 9, 1938, the Nazis burned more than 1.400 synagogues and Jewish institutions in Germany and Austria. These events were called "Kristallnacht" (The Night of Crystals) and were the beginning of the chain of events that led to the Holocaust of 6 million European Jews.
- We send our own message: We can ALL join the #LetThereBeLight campaign by uploading a personal message to the dedicated streaming platform HERE.