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of APE correspondent F. Karavitis
With the program "Karya 1943. Jewish Forced Labor and Holocaust in Greece" and the exhibitions of the same title in Berlin and Athens illuminates, more than 80 years later, a "blind spot" in the history of the Nazi occupation in Greece.
The writer Giorgos Vafopoulos likens it to "dental hell". The site of martyrdom for around 400 Thessalonian Jews is now being highlighted, to remind that many aspects of the Occupation period still remain dimly lit in the collective memory.
The Documentation Center for Forced Labor is located in the Schönweide district in the east of Berlin, right on the site of the forced laborers' quarters during the Nazi period.
More: EXHIBITION IN GERMANY "KARYA 1943. FORCED LABOR AND HOLOCAUST IN GREECE" - LIGHT ON...
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The Oscar-winning film "Zone of Interest" was one of the most talked about in 2023. The film by the British Jonathan Glazer focuses on the family life of Rudolf H (the commandant of Auschwitz).
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In past decades in our parish (the Greek community of Australia), especially in that of Sydney, a Greek Jew named Alberto Yakoel was active and came to expatriate events.
More: NINA ANGELO: INTERVIEW OF AUSTRALIA'S GREEK-JEWISH WOMAN WHOSE PARENTS MET IN...
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Nikos Chrysikakis and Esther Solomon talk to "K" about the 15-year effort to collect the testimonies of the Jews of Ioannina who survived the Holocaust, the result of which is the documentary "Lost Yannina"
On March 25, 1944, the life and history of the Romaniotes, that is, the Jewish community of Ioannina, would change forever. The approximately 2.000 Jews of the city, who constituted one of the oldest Jewish communities in Greece and Europe, were ordered by the Nazi forces to gather at the Ioannina Castle. Then 1.870 people, carrying the bare essentials, began their tragic journey to the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Only 163 of them returned, while another 69 managed to escape either because Christian families hid them or because they fled to the mountains and joined the Resistance.
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The book by Victoria G. Sabetai with the title was released by Ivi Publications "Mathilde A 8482- Auschwitz", which tells the story of Jewish Mathilde Mizan during World War II.
For the book:
My name is Mathilde Mizan, I was born in Corfu on July 27, 1921 and I was a witness to the greatest crime in human history. In September 1943, after a long Italian occupation, the island came under the control of Nazi Germany. In June of the following year, the Germans forced the Jewish population of the island into open ships with an unknown destination. Among them I was with my whole family. Thus began the path of our martyrdom...
Exclusive availability of the book in Volos at the "Helios" bookstore.
