H Απέλαση των Εβραίων της Ρόδου και της Κω: 1944-2014 - Ένα Διεθνές Συμπόσιο Μνήμης για το Ολοκαύτωμα στο Αιγαίο

Με την ευκαιρία του εορτασμού της 70ης επετείου από την απέλαση των Εβραίων της Ρόδου και της Κω: 1944-2014, τα Γενικά Αρχεία του Κράτους Δωδεκανήσου μαζί με το Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου, το Πανεπιστήμιο του Λίμερικ, την Ισραηλιτική Κοινότητα Ρόδου, σας στέλνουμε Δελτίο Τύπου και το πρόγραμμα του Διεθνούς Συμποσίου για το Ολοκαύτωμα στο Αιγαίο, το οποίο θα πραγματοποιηθεί από τις 22 έως 24 Ιούλιου 2014  στο Ακταίον και το Πανεπιστήμιο  Αιγαίου. Το συμπόσιο θα μας δώσει την ευκαιρία να μάθουμε για νέες έρευνες στην ιταλική και γερμανική κατοχή στα Δωδεκάνησα καθώς και την ιστορία των θρησκειών και εθνοτήτων στην Ελλάδα.
Η προϊσταμένη
των ΓΑΚ Αρχείων Ν. Δωδεκανήσου
Ειρήνη Τόλιου

Monday 21 July
20:30 Dinner for the participants at the restaurant Romios in the old town
(at own expense)
Tuesday 22 July
Venue: Aktaion (Mandraki, 7th March str.)
09:00-9:30 Welcome Address
Ioannis Machairidis, Governor of South Aegean Region
Stathis Kousournas, Mayor of Rhodes
Irene Tolios, Director of the General State Archives, Dodecanese, Rhodes
Mrs Bella Angel Restis, President of the Jewish Community, Rhodes
9:30-10:00 Opening Remarks: The Purpose and Aims of the Symposium
Anthony McElligott
(University of Limerick, Ireland)
10:00-11:30 Public Lecture (Chair Giannis Sakkas, University of the Aegean)
“Foretelling the Holocaust?: European Jewry in Crisis, 1933-1939”
Professor Monty Penkower
(Professor Emeritus of Jewish History, Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem)
11:30-11:45 Refreshments
Strand 1: Archives
11:45-13:15 Panel i: Archives / Sources / Digitization
(Moderator Anthony McElligott, University of Limerick)
Vadim Altskan (USHMM)
‘Rescuing the Evidence: Primary sources for the History of the Jewish community of Rhodes before, during,
and after the Holocaust’.
Irene Tolios (GAK, Rhodes)/Marco Clementi (University of Calabria)
‘The Italian Royal Carabinieri Archive’
Sara Berger (VEJ Berlin/Rome)
‘Documents about Rhodes in the Document Collection “The Persecution and Extermination of the European
Jews by Nazi Germany”: in Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden Vol. 14’
BUFFET LUNCH
14:15-15:45 Panel ii: Archives/Sources/Digitization
(Moderator Sheila Lecoeur, Imperial College, University of London)
Argyris Koskoros, (International Writers’ & Translators’ Centre, Rhodes)
‘The Jews of Rhodes in the Municipal Archives at the IWTCR’
Jason Chandrinos (Jewish Museum of Greece)
‘Accessing the JMG Holocaust Archives and Collections and Oral History Archive online’
Liliana Picciotto (CDEC)
‘The CDEC Database of Rhodes Deportees’
15:45-16:00 Refreshments
Strand 2: Folk Memory
16:00-17:15 Panel iii: The Holocaust in Rhodes/Cos in Diaspora folk memory (with public participation)
Renée Hirschon (St Peter’s College, Oxford)
‘Reconstructing Life in the Old City 1939-44: The Value of the Italian Household Archive’
Richard Freund (University of Hartford)
‘Memory and Identity: A Video Testimony Project for the Next Generation’
17:30-19:00 Public Lecture (Chair Professor Renée Hirschon)
‘Jewish Rhodes: A History in Image and Song’
Professor Esther Fintz Menascé (Prof. of English and Comparative Literatures, Emerita, University of Milan)
19:30 Wine Reception: Welcome by Professor Konstantine Vratzalis, Head of the School of Humanities, University of
the Aegean and by Professor Paris Tzartas, Rector of the University of the Aegean.
Presentation by Liliana Picciotto (CDEC) to Mrs Bella Angel Restis, President of the Jewish Community in Rhodes
‘List of Deportees from Rhodes and Cos’
21:00 Symposium Dinner Botrini’s Restaurant, Hotel Bellevue Suites, Akti Miaouli & Tilou, 85100 Rhodes
(courtesy of Mrs Bella Angel Restis)
Wednesday 23July
11:00 Hashkava: Rhodes Jewish Cemetery, Kallithea Avenue followed by lunch Kallithea Springs (organised by JCR)
(At 14:30 there will be transport for participants from Kallithea Springs to the University)
Strand 3: Research Questions
Venue: University of Aegean, Dimokratias Avenue 1,
Building: ‘7th Martiou’, Rooms 3 & 4 (ground floor)
15:00-16:30 Panel iv: Italy and the Dodecanese
(Moderator Marco Clementi, University of Calabria)
Luca Pignataro (Rome/Teramo)
‘Italian Dodecanese and Jews’
Valerie McGuire (European University Institute, Florence)
‘Una faccia, una razza?: Italian citizenship and differentiation in the Dodecanese occupation’
Sheila Lecoeur (Imperial College, London),
‘Italian-Greek relations during the Axis occupation: memories and contested memories’
Short Break
16:45-18:15 Panel v: War and Deportation: Rhodes, Cos, Thrace
(Moderator Richard Freund, University of Hartford)
Giannis Sakkas (University of the Aegean)
‘The Arrests on 23 July 1944. The beginning of the end for the Jews of Rhodes’
Isabella Insolvibile (Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
‘The island of Kos under German Occupation and British Military Administration (1943-1947)’
Vasilis Ritzaleos (University Thrace)
‘Bulgaria and Northern Aegean: Jews of Thrace’
18:15-18:30 Refreshments
Strand 4: Public History
18:30- 20:30 Panel vi: Holocaust in Film Documentary
(Moderator & Discussant Liat Benhabib,Yad Vashem)

Thursday 24 July
Venue: University of Aegean, Dimokratias Avenue 1,
Building: ‘7th Martiou’, Rooms 3 & 4 (ground floor)
Strand 5: Public History cont.
09:15-11:15 Panel vii: War in Film Documentary
(Moderator & Discussant Violetta Hionidou (University of Newcastle)
Violetta Hionidou (University of Newcastle, UK),
‘Hunger and Famine in the Aegean, 1941-1945’
Film: A Basket of Food: The Greek Famine (dir. Sheila Lecoeur, Engl. 2013)
With panel discussion
11:15-11:30 Refreshments
Strand 6: Education
11:30-12:30 Panel viii: Teaching the Holocaust in the Aegean
(Moderator Vadim Altskan)
Anthony McElligott (University of Limerick),
‘The Lessons of Genocide in the Aegean for Holocaust History’
George Kokkinos & Vassiliki Sakka (Aegean University),
‘The Traumatic Memory of the Holocaust and Historical Education.
From the European Institutions to the Local Level: The Case of Rhodes’
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-15:30 Panel ix: (Symposium Discussion) The Jews of Rhodes: Italian History, Greek History, Holocaust History
(Moderator Anthony McElligott)
18:00 Reconvene at the Kahal Shalom Synagogue for Guided Tour of Jewish Rhodes with Isaac Habib
(Jewish Museum of Rhodes) followed by Ouzo & Mezedes.