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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.
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In this year's event, the Thessaloniki Film Festival pioneers and upgrades the podcast section, giving the audience the opportunity to listen live to the ten podcasts participating in the Competition Section, in the specially designed Podcast Room, at the entrance of the Port (Gate 1-West Outpost Admission), for the entire ten days of the Festival, daily from 12:00 to 20:00, with free entry.
In the context of the competition program of the 63rd Thessaloniki Film Festival, the podcast entitled "Esther" by journalist Thomas Sideris, which refers to the deportation of the Jews of Ioannina to Auschwitz, also participates. The podcast is produced by Kostas Lazopoulos and Oros Films and includes the latest interview of Esther/Stella Cohen-Mygioni with Thomas Sideris.
The podcast will also be available online on the festival page.
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Stories of heroism in a world war, which for Greece began on October 28, 1940, and was followed by the dark years of the occupation.
A case, not so well known, is that of the pharmacist Lambrou Karamertzani, a relative of the fighter Lela Karagianni, who helped save many Jews throughout the Occupation. For his heroic attitude, he was included in 1991 in the Pantheon of the Righteous Among the Nations.
Of the 77.377 Jews living in Greek territory before the persecution began, 10.226 survived (population reduction rate -86%). In some areas we find high rates of rescue (Athens, Volos, Larissa, Zakynthos etc.), while in others almost total annihilation (Thessaloniki, Veria, Corfu etc.). The criteria that played a role had to do with the relations between Jews and the local population, the size, geographical location, economic strength and degree of assimilation of each community, the attitude of the Greek authorities and the presence of resistance groups in the area.
Karamertzanis at that time ran a pharmacy at 145 Patision Street, Kefallinia stop, while he was president of the Panhellenic Pharmaceutical Association and director of the newspaper "Efimeris ton Farmakopoi".
More: LAMBROS KAMERTZANIS: THE PHARMACIST OF ATHENS WHO SAVED 2.000 JEWS FROM THE NAZIS
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During the 2021-2022 school year, the 3ο Agios Athanasios High School (Thessaloniki Bridge) founded and implemented a new "Étwinning" European Project entitled "Anne Frank, a kid like you". Teachers, students from Spain and Greece collaborated.
Students from all participating schools read excerpts from The Diary of Anne Frank, learned about her life and the history of her diary, and did homework on the Holocaust.
We talked about the Jewish communities, their past and present, their customs and traditions, we drew, participated in a forum, communicated...
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The Holocaust of the Greek Jews is one of the most heinous crimes in Greek History. Of the 77.000 Jews living in Greece on the eve of World War II, only 10.000 managed to survive the Nazi extermination camps.
Unfortunately, the almost total uprooting of the Greek Jews has not taken its proper place, both in official history and in collective memory. At the same time, how Holocaust survivors were treated post-war by the Greek state and local communities is usually kept silent.
As part of the Eteron History Podcasts, Yiannis Albanis talks with the historian Rika Benveniste about the Holocaust of the Greek Jews. Ms. Benveniste teaches Medieval History at the University of Volos and has done important studies on the Holocaust. The discussion with her attempts to illuminate aspects of Nazi atrocities that are not known to the general public, but also to delve into the political and philosophical questions raised by the study of the Holocaust.