On Tuesday, June 18, 2024, at 19.30:14 p.m. at the Goethe Institute, (Omirou 16-XNUMX, Athens) the research project will be shown “Lost Yannina: A Topography of Jewish Memory” of the University of Ioannina and the documentary of the same title that has just been completed, which explore the relationship between the experience of the Second World War and the city of Ioannina, as experienced by the few Jewish survivors of the Holocaust from Ioannina: those who returned from the camps, joined with the rebels or managed to hide.
Through informants' speech and physical movement through the spaces mentioned in their narratives, the design of original maps and itineraries, and the extensive archival, geographical/museological and social research that began in 2009, the oral testimonies of social subjects are connected to specific locations (houses, streets, landscapes, shops, tourist attractions, ruins of buildings) of a modern and familiar everyday life in Ioannina. The focus on experience, micro-history and the relationship between memory and space makes these places mnemonic, anti-heroic individual and collective landmarks that are marked on empirical topographies of the city but also on maps designed with a variety of narrative materials.
Scientific project manager: Art History Laboratory of the School of Fine Arts of the University of Ioannina
Cinematography/ photography/ direction: Nikos Chrysikakis, director – photographer – cinematographer
Scientific manager: Esther Solomon, Associate Professor of Museology at the University of Ioannina
Editing: Stelios Hadjikremilis
Music: Kostas Pantelidis
Narrator: Christos Solomos
Production: Art History Workshop of the School of Fine Arts of the University of Ioannina & John Ostfield, with the support of the University of Ioannina and the Hellenic German Fund for the Future
Duration: 72 minutes - free entry