The new captivating series of ERT "The bracelet of fire" which is shown from 25/1 to 31/1 on ERTFLIX and immediately after on ERT1, revives a real and shocking story, which has been recorded in her book of the same name by Beatrice Saia Magrizou. The author spoke on ERT's "Connections" show about the promise she had made to her beloved father, who has passed away, to show the world what happened to the Greek Jews.

"I am really very moved that a promise I made to my father years ago I put into practice with my book," said Ms. Saia Magrizou. "He told me his story, the story of his Sephardic family, who were unjustly driven by Nazism, by intolerance, to the concentration camps. He lost people there. He became a guinea pig in the hands of Mengele, but he came back victorious. He came back to tell the whole world what happened there... And he swore to me to write it, when he found out that I became a writer, at one point, he called me in Thessaloniki from Larissa where I live, and he says "now come and tell them, so that write them down". He died shortly after, unfortunately. I wrote it too."

It is commonplace in a family of Holocaust survivors not to talk about it to the younger ones. And Ms. Saia Magrizou's family was no different in this regard, at least at the beginning. "Our parents didn't talk about these issues, they were very hard issues. In the last 5 years they started telling us things. Did they think they wouldn't believe them? Did they want to forget them? I do not know. 116257 was engraved in my father's hand, just like everyone else's. Since we were little children, we saw this number and when we were little we were just called "the Germans". But later, he would tell us bit by bit, but he would start sobbing and we would say stop dad, it's okay, and he would stop. But when our parents saw growing up that the Holocaust was being questioned, they couldn't stand it and that's why they wanted to tell us."

To the concern of the viewers about whether they could stand to see such a series where all the horror of that time is captured, the author replies: “It is not a horror series! It's a series of optimism... Optimism that life goes on. And I remember my dad telling me "our survival was our victory over Nazism" and they went on and built their homes, built families, built their jobs... They never instilled hatred in us. This is very important. But they told us never to forget so these events don't happen again."

In the series, Ms. Saia Magrizou is not only expecting to see the revival of her family history, but something much bigger than that: "I am very excited, not because the history of my father's family will be revived, but because through my father and from his whole family the memory of all 55.000 Greek Jews will be revived and the world will know that when the Greek Jews were burned in the camps, it was the children of Greece who were burned, which they don't know, really. And a lot of young people tell me that they want to see the series... And young kids, who don't watch TV, are very attracted to the subject and want to learn. Because it's sad that we don't learn in schools. There is only a very short paragraph.'

From Saturday, February 4, 2023, at 22:00 and every Saturday at the same time, "The bracelet of fire" will be shown by ERT1 - with a double episode in the first week.

SOURCE: ertnews.grLa Javie, 24.1.2023

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