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* The article includes Heinz Cunio's audio interview.
"My name is Heinz Dario Cunho, today I am 93." He is one of the few living Greek Jews who were deported to the Nazi extermination camps during World War II and managed to return. When he was released by the Americans, he weighed only 36 kg, while he could barely stand up.
Many of the people who survived the genocide avoided in the years that followed to talk about the suffering of the Holocaust, trying to forget, but not himself.
"I will speak until the last moment of my life and I will never forget, until I die", said to star.gr on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27/01, the man who lived the horror in Auschwitz, he cheated death with a smile of fortune and two months ago he defeated the coronavirus.
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Chrysoula Eliassa, at 97 today, is one of the last Greek survivors of the concentration camps. Born in 1924 in Ioannina, from Isaac and Stamoula, she experienced the horrors of hostages and crematoria, losing dozens of her own people. Relatives and friends.
The audio - unedited - document provided to Liberal by the family of Ms. Chrysoula Elias is the recounting of the events as she experienced and remembers them.
Her account, a few years ago, of the nightmare from the first day she was in the hands of the German occupiers until her release and her return to Greece, is, in addition to a shocking confession that sees the light of day, and a testimony of historical value for future generations. For the Nazi atrocities, for the Holocaust, for all that humanity must not experience again.
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On 13.5.2016, Mr. Heinz Kounio, a survivor of the Holocaust, spoke about the Holocaust and his tragic experience in Auschwitz, to students of the Democritus University of Thrace, in Komotini, in an event organized by the Department of History and Ethnology, in the context of course "Teaching history using sources". The following article from Heinz Cunio's speech was published in the online newspaper "Chronos" of Thrace.
He wrote the book "I Lived Death - The Diary of Number 109565" and compiled a list with the identity information of tens of thousands of Holocaust victims from Thessaloniki.
He is the man who has the Holocaust in his body and soul. Heinz Cunio, one of the last survivors of the Holocaust, was found today at noon in Komotini.
As part of the course "Teaching History Using Sources", Heinz Cunio was hosted by the Department of History and Ethnology and spoke to the camera of "X". Don't allow the crimes of the holocaust to happen again, was the message he sent through the camera of "X" and to journalist Dimitra Symeonidou, saying that the crimes were committed by a possessed man.
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To the newspaper "Daily" on 14.1.2016 the following article by Margarita Pournara was published about the photographic exhibition of artist Artemis Alkalais. The opening of the exhibition will take place on January 20 2016 at the Cervantes Institute of Athens in collaboration with Jewish Museum of Greece.
PICTURE STORY OF SURVIVORS OF HELL
The visual artist Artemis Alkalai has always had a special relationship with fabric. Even when she doesn't use it in her works, she knows how to touch these delicate, psychic "threads", to weave emotions that make her work inauthentically moving.
Her new section will be presented in an exhibition at the Cervantes Institute in Athens, on Wednesday, January 20, entitled "Greek Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. A visual narrative". There she exhibits 44 portraits of our compatriots who passed through Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, some of whom are photographed with specific creations of hers, which are related to their special history.
This pairing is not at all narcissistic but certainly has elements of self-referentiality, as the artist grew up in a family that had suffered both persecution and the burden of loss. So she chose the therapeutic method of art to process her own experiences.
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In the newspaper "Kathimerini", 29.3.2015, the following interview of the hostage Mr. Heinz Kunio, which he gave to the journalist Stavros Tzima, was published, entitled "At Auschwitz it snowed flakes of burnt flesh». The interview took place after Mr. Kunio's visit and speech to students of the Schiller German High School in Berlin, during which he referred to the nightmare he lived in the extermination camps of Nazi Germany.
"...As long as I was talking to them in the room there was deathly silence, absolute silence...".
– And what did you tell them?
- "The truth. I didn't want to hide anything from them. I told them how I came home and was caught by an SS officer, Alois Brunner, how we were loaded by being pushed into the wagons that were for pigs and cows, how we arrived at Auschwitz at night, how it was "snowing" flakes of ash, burnt human flesh from the Birkenau fireplace. I told them everything..."
And it was a lot and difficult, as 87-year-old Heinz Kounio, a Greek Jew from Thessaloniki, a Holocaust survivor, told the students of the Schiller German high school in Berlin.
They had invited him to tell them about the nightmare he lived in the extermination camps of Nazi Germany and to commemorate in this way, on the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the departure of the first train from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz, the memory of 55.000 Jews of the city who never returned, but also the Jewish students of their high school who were burned alive by the SS in the crematoria.
More: Interview of Homer Heinz Cunio in the newspaper KATHIMERINI