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Lazar Pitkovic was just 14 years old when the Paris police knocked on the door of his home on the morning of July 16, 1942. Together with his family, he was packed into a bus and taken to the "Vélodrome d'Hiver", Vel d'Yves . Over the next two days, approximately 8.000 more Jews from Paris and the surrounding communities are taken to the popular cycle track near the Eiffel Tower. Most of them have foreign passports because the French government does not yet want to hand over native Frenchmen to the Nazis. The conditions there are miserable - there is no water, no food, no toilets.
Lazar Pitkovic realizes very soon that this will not have a happy ending. He senses that he has one chance to escape when, at noon on July 16, riots break out near the entrance to the ghetto: across the street is a grocery store. Mothers who have had no food for their children since morning protest loudly and convince the guards to let them buy milk and water. In the general commotion, Lazar escapes, tears the yellow star from his coat and calmly heads for the "Grenelle" metro station (renamed "Bir-Hakeim" in 1949). He will never see his parents and sister Faiga again, who ended up in the extermination camp, Auschwitz - just like the women who had rushed to the grocery store and returned.
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When Soviet soldiers, on January 27, 1945, liberated Auschwitz, they saw hell – skeletonized bodies that resembled humans, ashes of human flesh, smoking chimneys of crematoria, mass graves – a whole industry of human extermination: It was the embodiment of the "Final Solution" that had been announced by Adolf Hitler for the extermination of the Jews from Europe and the whole world.
Many believed at the time that the gates of the Soviet Union would be open to Jews and their lives would resemble nothing of the pogroms suffered by Tsarist Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And the truth is that many Jews from the countries that made up the Soviet Union immigrated before the Second World War to what was then Palestine to build the State of Israel.
More: "THE BLOOD OF HITLER AND THE PROTOCOLS OF THE WISE MEN OF ZION" BY VICTOR IS. ELIEZER
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On May 10 and 11, 2022, the Netherlands Institute of Athens, the Research Institute for Culture of the Free University of Amsterdam and the Greek Jewish Studies Workshop are organizing a two-day international workshop on "Jewish Responses to Persecution and Rescue Efforts During the Holocaust" ( Jewish reactions to persecution and rescue efforts during the Holocaust). The workshop is a continuation of the webinar "Testimonies and Research on Hiding during the Holocaust", which took place on 20.10.2021 (watch this HERE), which includes testimonies of persecuted people who went into hiding during the Occupation.
Due to the restrictions of the pandemic, the workshop will also provide the possibility of online participation. You can register HERE. Read more about the workshop HERE.
Among the presenters are: Giorgos Antoniou, Odette Varon-Vassar, Stratos Dordanas, Anna Maria Droumboukis, Philippos Karabot, Paris Papamichos-Chronakis, Jason Chandrinos. You can see the detailed program HERE.
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Open access to the electronic database of the Fortunoff Oral Testimony Archive of Yale University was obtained by the AUTH Library and Information Center.
It is one of the largest audiovisual history archives in the world. The presentation of the basis of the Audiovisual Historical Archive will take place on Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 12.00, in the Amphitheater of the Central Library of AUTH.
The presentation of the Audiovisual Historical Archive will be made by the Director of the Fortunoff Archive, Mr. Stephen Naron, by Asst. Professor of the Chair of Jewish Studies of the Department of History and Archeology of the AUTH, Mr. Georgios Antoniou, and by the librarian of the Acquisitions Office of the AUTH Central Library, Ms. Xenia Agorogianni, while the President of the AUTH Central Library, Professor Mr. Emilios, will address a greeting Mavroudis, and the Head of Directorate of the Central Library of AUTH, Ms. Angeliki Hatzigeorgiou.
More: AUTH ACCESS TO THE YALE HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR ORAL TESTIMONY ARCHIVE
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By Christas Dzani
A father, Otto, returns to Amsterdam in May 1945 from Auschwitz to find that he is the only survivor of his family, he finds the diary his young daughter kept while they were hiding to escape the persecution of the Jews publishes it and the book becomes one of the most important experiential documents of the Second World War – the "Diary of Anne Frank".
A Polish mother returns alive with her husband from Auschwitz, only to find that the son she had given to an aunt to watch over him in case he escaped extermination had finally died, the couple rebuilds their lives, still does a son, but Anja, unable to live with the losses and memories, ends her own life in 1968. Her son, Art, will chronicle their experiences a few years later in Maus, the first comic he ever got Pulitzer Prize.
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- PRESS INTERVIEW ON THE MEMORIAL MARCH FOR THE HOLOCAUST OF THE KABALA JEWS