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 in the schoo ...
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 Frieden ...
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 for children th ...
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 ...
Jewish history goes back far into the past. The discovery of an inscription from Attica dating from 300-250 BC is the oldest archaeological evidence of Jewish life in Greece. Many Jews immigrated to Greece in Roman times and made the beginning of the Byzantine Jewish Communities. These Communiti ...
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 can be found ...
Gabriel Kamhi (the son of Rafael Kamhi who was hidden with other family members in Kryoneri during the German occupation in World War II) took his time to document his fathers family story: “I, Gabriel Kamhi, a descendent of the Kamhi family whose origins lie in the city of Monastir (in north ...
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 ...
74 years after the people of a small Greek village, led by the local priest, hid her and her family from the Nazis, Rivka Jakobi returned to meet the descendants of her rescuers. On June 7th 2017, Rivka arrived in Kryoneri, which she knew by “Matsani” back in 1943. She came back to the village ...
