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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
During her first return to Kryoneri Rivka Jakobi communicated her wish to visit the cave she found shelter in one more time, after so many years had passed. She really set her heart on showing her family and friends the place that kept her safe from multiple situations connected to the German oc ...
Certificate of Honour for Nikolaos Athanasoulis More than 26,000 people around the world have received the prestigious award, including more than 335 brave Greeks. Two o’clock in the afternoon, in the village of Kryoneri in the Peloponnese, 120 km west of Athens. 74 years after the liberation of ...
The Interviews of Memory Alive/Stories of Dresden Community, took place on November 6th, 2018 after the exhibition, as part of the monthly programm „yOUR Community“ of the organisation “Kultur Aktiv” in cooperation with DIFO – Dresdner Institut für Fortbildung. „After discussions with my host ...
