In the west of Crete, where the destructive “Battle of Crete” raged in 1941, there is the Orthodox Academy of Crete (OAC). In 1968 Irinäus Galanákis, then Metropolitan of Kissamos and Selinon, and his student Dr. Alexandros Papaderós founded the OAC. Its aim is to promote dialogue between people o ...
ASF volunteers visiting Kalavryta in April 2022 Volunteering for Memory in Greece -A cooperation between Filoxenia and Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste For many people in Germany, Greece is known as a holiday destination and the Greek hospitality attracts thousands of German tourists every ...
Many people in Germany see Greece only as a holiday destination and the Greek hospitality attracts thousands of German tourists every year. But most of them, however, do not know: During the German occupation of Greece between 1941 and 1944, about one-tenth of the Greek people were mur ...
Voluntary Service in the “Municipal Museum of Kalavritan Holocaust” Paul guiding the other volunteers around the museum “I work in a museum that deals with the massacre of Kalavryta. The 117. Hunters Division of the Wehrmacht has gathered all the inhabitants of the village ...
I am Marlene, 18 years old and I come from Husum, a small town in Northern Germany. I’ve known for a long time that I wanted to spend a year abroad after graduating from high school to experience other cultures and so I decided to apply to an organization called “Aktion Sühnezeichen Fri ...
The German organization “Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste e.V.” was founded in 1958 to confront the legacy of Nazism. It is especially known through international volunteer programs and the organization of work camps in eastern and western Europe. ASF sends approximately 180 volunteers to cou ...
From Athens to a poor village in Corinthia – The adventure of a family through the eyes of the children who lived it The great illustrations by Hara Marantidou add emotion to the narrative. It is an exemplary conversation between text and image. The overall result is a Greek book fo ...
Memory Alive Stories of Dresden Community It’s a small scale project of fellow Hana Sebestova during her phase I., placement in Germany (02.10 – 15.11.2018), under the “START – Create Cultural Change” program supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung. The mini project’s goal under „y ...
A lot of descriptions have been written about hell. It usually has a huge crematoria and cruel angels who carry out their plot. But when Rivka Kamhi-Jakobi (81) describes the hell she experienced as a child in World War II in Greece, she describes it as a place where many good souls ca ...
An artistic search for traces in the shared past of young people from Germany and Greece “Young people from Germany together with young people from Greek Martyr communities do research in Ravensbrück and Kalavryta in order to deal creatively and narratively with the history of the people i ...
