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The Yad Vashem "Right of Nations" medal was awarded by the Israeli ambassador to Greece, Noam Katz, to Mary Kalou, in memory of Angeliki's mother.
As he states in his post in the NCDs The Israeli ambassador: "Last week, in the presence of her beloved family, I had the honor of awarding the Yad Vashem 'Righteous Among the Nations' medal to Mary Kalou, in memory of her mother, Angeliki Kalou, a Greek heroine who saved Ino Fais during the Holocaust in Athens."
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A special ceremony for the awarding of the title of "Righteous Among the Nations" by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum was held on 3.4.2025 by the Ambassador of Israel Noam Katz, to the family of Konstantinos Sfakianakis, who saved the couple Raphael and Bianca Ventura during World War II.
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The descendants of Nikolaos Hatzigiannakis and Stylianos Papadopoulos, two people who risked their lives during the Occupation to save Jewish families in Thessaloniki, were honored with the title of "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem. Thanks to Stylianos Papadopoulos' self-sacrifice, not only were Loukia Levi's parents and her husband Avraam saved, but also the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren they had.
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by Alice Cohen – Moses
The families of Captain Vassilis and Fotini Siskopoulos, Nikolaou and Pelagia Giata, and Captain Georgiou and Anastasia Piciava from Litochoro, were honored by the grandchildren of Emmanuel and Emma Hazan, Aliki Cohen-Moussi, Fikos Saltiel and David Hazan, for rescuing their grandparents and of their parents, Ettis, Russel and Moshe during the German Occupation.
The event took place in the packed meeting room of the Dion-Olympus Municipal Council on Sunday, December 18, 2022. The event was opened by Alice Cohen - Moses, which made a brief review of the events that marked the history of her family. As soon as war was declared in October 1940, Captain Giorgos Siskopoulos, who lived with his family near Emmanuel Hazan's family in Thessaloniki, suggested that he take them to Litochoro in his boat (Agios Spyridon) that was carrying coal. The Captain was a Litochorite and since he too had children the same age as the Hazan family he thought there would be more security there
in the period of war. Thus, the five-member Jewish family was moved to Litochoro, where it remained throughout the Occupation, hidden in the homes of the other families honored at the event.
In his greeting, Mr Mayor of Dion-Olympus, Mr. Vangelis Geroliolios he emphasized that the event is characterized by the universal values of humanity, solidarity and helping fellow human beings. The rescue of the Jewish family at that time by the Litochori families, the Mayor said, proves the universality that should characterize our thinking even today, emphatically showing that we all have a responsibility to not allow similar events to happen again.
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of Kostas Vergou
Being the seasoned journalist that she is, Yvette had to exercise her storytelling skills, to show that "we must not let hate have the last word."
Personal stories that intersect with world history is the multi-translated and EMMY award-winning book "Something Beautiful Happened" ("Something beautiful happened") by Yvette Manesis Korporon, a Greek-American from Ereikousio.
A human story of her of Erikousa and the Jews of Corfu during the German occupation, next to a story of hatred and murder in America seven decades later.
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