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By Spyridon Anagnostos
I visited the estate of my beloved uncle Philippos Kosmas (Barbatsoulis), located just outside the city of Kastoria, a few weeks ago. I had my say. We have been the administrators of his real estate in the city since 1996 when he passed away. There was someone interested in using this rural area, in which there is a 60 square meter house that functioned as a warehouse.
Inside the house, ashes, cotton from broken pillows, stones, dirt. Result of burglaries and time. The floor is barely visible. On the way out I step on a piece of sheet metal and it makes a loud noise. Birds get scared and come out of the fireplace... The doors and windows are also damaged. A few meters further, and as we headed for the exit, I decide to turn back. My thought, on the sheet metal... Maybe it was some old sign from my uncle's fur shop, I thought.
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A commemorative march commemorating the 79th anniversary of the Holocaust of the 1.484 Jews of Kavala will take place in the city on Sunday, April 3, 2022. It will start at 12:00 noon from the Greek Lyceum and will end at the Jewish Memorial of Kavala on Erythrou Stavrou Street .
The organizers are the Municipality, the Central Jewish Council of Greece, the Jewish Community of Kavala, the Europe Direct office of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace and the "Dialogue of Youth" Association.
The commemorative events that will take place in Kavala on Sunday, April 3, 2022 were mentioned, in a press conference, by the mayor of Kavala, Thodoros Mouriadis, and the president of DIMOFELEIA, Panagiotis Angelidis. The representative of Europe Direct Eastern Macedonia-Thrace, Dimitris Spitseris, and the writer of Jewish origin from Kavaliot, Fiko Mevorach, attended and spoke.
Mr. Mouriadis pointed out, among other things, that "Mr. Elisaf is a jewel for the local government, as, in addition to his important presence in the social development of Ioannina, he also has a remarkable career in the field of medical science".
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The importance that the US Department of State attaches to Holocaust issues and to informing citizens about the suffering suffered by the Jews during World War II was mentioned, among others, by the Special Envoy of the United States of America for Holocaust Issues, Ellen Germain, in her interview on the GRTimes.gr WebTv show "SamTimes" and the journalist Maria Samolada.
"Our mission is to seek Justice for Holocaust survivors and their heirs," said Ellen Germain, among others, explaining why the US State Department has a Special Envoy for Holocaust-related issues. He added: “We have two areas we are working on. One is the area of Restitution and Compensation', aimed at encouraging governments to consider some procedures for claiming - by Holocaust survivors and their heirs - property confiscated by the Nazis during World War II.
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"Over the years we have had our fill of blood and corpses. Your work did not offend anyone. You did the right thing," she said Hela Kunio, daughter of Holocaust survivor Heinz Cunio, at director of the documentary "Umberto Primo's Children" Alessandra Maioletti, after the end of the screening of the film in the packed John Cassavetes hall as part of the 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
"I'm glad that the message I wanted to give with the film is recognized," the director tells the Athenian/Macedonian News Agency. Earlier, in the discussion following the screening, Maioletti had pointed out exactly this: "We thought that the victims themselves would not want us to show them any other way."
In 2003, in Thessaloniki, Antonio Crescenci, who co-wrote the script with Alessandra Maioletti, discovered diplomas, reports and papers of the school's students as well as archives of historical importance. These findings were the starting point for an 18-year investigation on which the dramatized documentary was based.
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By Tasos Kostopoulos
Hitler's Holocaust Remembrance Day tomorrow and, once again, the conventional tribute to its victims will be pitted in public discourse against attempts to meaningfully reflect on that collective crime. In an era of near-unanimous condemnation of Nazism and anti-Semitism even by official lips with a highly charged personal record, the "divisive" aspects of the contested past are increasingly relegated to the sidelines of commemorative narratives - whether it is the profitable exploitation of persecution of the Jews by domestic small and large "entrepreneurship" or for the leading role of the EAM resistance in saving the most dynamic part of the scheduled minority.
Having already dealt with the first part ("Holocaust and real estate", "Ef.Syn." 23/1/2016), today we will refer to the second, through an emblematic case: the concealment of the rabbi of Athens, Eliachos Barzilai , from the EAM in a village in the mountainous Dorida, after his escape from the capital in September 1943.
The "kidnapping"
Born in Thessaloniki in 1891 and educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Barzilai became the rabbi of Athens in 1936, after a long teaching career in Skopje, Belgrade and Tel Aviv. After the collapse of the front in 1941, the occupation authorities appointed him head of the local Israeli community, reviving the Ottoman identification of religious and communal leadership of minorities.
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