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The Deportation of the Jews of & Cos: 1944-2014 A Commemorative International Symposium on the Holocaust in the Aegean

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

Rhodes 22-24 July 2014

The symposium is a joint-endeavour between the Department of History, University of Limerick Ireland, the Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, General State Archives, , Rhodes and the Jewish Community of Rhodes.

The organizers gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Danon Family (Cape Town); the Prefecture of Rhodes; Mrs Bella Angel Restis, President of the Jewish Community of Rhodes, the University of the Aegean and the Pane di Capo.

The organizers:

• Irene Tolios, Director of the General State Archives, Dodecanese, Rhodes • Prof. Anthony McElligott, University of Limerick, Ireland • Prof. Giannis Sakkas, University of the Aegean, Rhodes • Carmen Cohen, Administrative Director of the Jewish Community of Rhodes.

Places of the Symposium:

- 21-22 July: Aktaion, near Marina Mandrakiou in Rhodes (7th March str.).

- 23-24 July: 7th March Building, University (Panepistimio Egeou), Dimokratias Avenue 1 (700 m. from the city centre).

For the location of the places

Aktaion, Marina Mandrakiou & Panepistimio Egeou see the following map of the city of Rhodes: http://www.mappery.com/map-of/Rhodes-City-Map

Romios Restaurant (Monday evening): https://www.google.gr/maps/place/Romios+Restaurant/@36.442262,28.227781,17z/ data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xdabe078d4701e3ee

Botrini’s Restaurant (Tuesday evening): http://www.tripadvisor.com.gr/Restaurant_Review-g635613-d4580257-Reviews-Botrini_s_ Restaurant-Rhodes_Town_Rhodes_Dodecanese.html#MAPVIEW

Koukos Restaurant (Wednesday evening) https://www.google.gr/maps/place/Koukos/@36.451358,28.220581,17z/ data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xb02b922b75886f04 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 ”: in Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden Vol. 14’ 13:15-14:15 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 ) ‘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) Film: ‘The longest voyage. Rhodes-Auschwitz’ (dir. Ruggero Gabbai, Italy, 2013) Panel discussion with Liliana Picciotto (CDEC, Milan), Marcello Pezzetti (MDS, Rome, tbc)

21:00 Followed by dinner courtesy University of the Aegean: Restaurant Koukkos

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 for Guided Tour of Jewish Rhodes with Isaac Habib () followed by Ouzo & Mezedes. Participants Dr Vadim Altskan, Senior Project Director, International Archival Programs Division, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, [email protected] Dr Zanet Battinou Director , [email protected] Benatar, [email protected] Liat Benhabib, Director, The Visual Center, Yad Vashem, [email protected] Sara Berger, Researcher, VEJ, Berlin, [email protected] Dr Jason Chandrinos, Researcher, Jewish Museum of Greece, [email protected] Carmen Cohen Administrator Ισραηλιτική Κοινότητα Ρόδου [email protected] Professor Marco Clementi, University of Calabria, [email protected] Marcel Danon, Cape Town, [email protected] Professor Rabbi Dr Richard Freund, Director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies and Greenberg Professor of Jewish History, University of Hartford, [email protected] Ruggero Gabbai, Film-maker, [email protected] Isaac Habib Jewish Museum Rhodes, [email protected] Aron Hasson, Founder Jewish Museum Rhodes, California [email protected] Dr Violetta Hionidou, School of History, University of Newcastle, UK, [email protected] Professor Renee Hirschon, St Peter’s College, Oxford [email protected] Isabella Insolvibile, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, [email protected] Professor George Kokkinos, Professor of History and History Didactics, Aegean University, [email protected] (with: Vassiliki Sakka PHD, History Didactics) Argyris Koskoros, IWTCR (Διεθνές Κέντρο Συγγραφέων και Μεταφραστών Ρόδου), [email protected] Dr Sheila Lecoeur, Imperial College London [email protected] Professor Anthony McElligott, Department of History, University of Limerick [email protected] Marietta Minotou, Director of General State Archives, Athens, [email protected] Dr Valerie McGuire, European University Institute Florence [email protected] Professor Esther Fintz Menascé, Professor Emerita, University of Milan, [email protected] Professor Monty Penkower, Professor Emeritus, Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, [email protected] (and wife) Marcello Pezzetti, Director, Museum for the History of the Shoa in Italy, Rome [email protected] Dr Liliana Picciotto Chief Historian, Foundation Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center (CDEC) Milan, [email protected] Dr Luca Pignataro, PhD Università degli Studi di Teramo, [email protected] Mrs Bella Angel Restis, [email protected] Dr Vasilis Ritzaleos, Post-doctoral researcher, University Thrace, [email protected] Professor Giannis Sakkas Aegean University [email protected] Dr Irene Tolios Director Hellenic State Archives of the Dodecanese/ΓΑΚ ΑΡΧΕΙΑ Ν. ΔΩΔΕΚΑΝΗΣΟΥ [email protected] Nancy Tryposkoufi, Director, IWTCR (Διεθνές Κέντρο Συγγραφέων και Μεταφραστών Ρόδου) [email protected]

Cover painting: julie Meetal