“I think I resisted because I had a happy childhood,” said the “Girl from Salonika” in Alison Jayne Wilson’s film of the same name. The film takes us back to the time before the German invasion and the deportation of 90% of Greek Jews. The girl later suffers in Block 10 of Auschwitz at the hands of the Nazi Dr. Horst Schumann.
This day reminds us of November 9th. The Kristallnacht pogroms, also known as the November pogroms, took place 85 years ago. You know. In Thessaloniki we found this street art image of a girl who could be the girl from the movie - young, kind and tired of all the things that we, humanity, just can't stop doing
