The Lost Years -Hidden Children in Occupied Greece
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2/5/2018
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On
the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Embassy of
Israel in Cyprus, in cooperation with the University of Cyprus, hosted a narration by Mr
Alexandros Simcha
"The Lost Years -Hidden Children in Occupied Greece" on Monday, 5th February 2018,
19.00, at the University Campus, Social Facilities Centre, Hall 010, (1,
Panepistimiou Ave.)Alexandros
Simha, a Greek-Jewish Holocaust survivor, gave a live testimony of his personal
story which relates to a lesser known aspect of the Holocaust of the Greek Jews. The
"Hidden Kids", are one of the most unique - yet unknown - aspects of
Nazi occupation. Hundreds of boys and girls, from almost all the Israeli
communities in the country, found food, shelter, words of encouragement or
consolation, even young families, in the feelings of the solidarity of the
Christian population. The story of those Jewish children who were forced to
leave their homes, go into hiding, constantly change their hiding places and use
false names or false identities, so much so that they lost their own identity –
sometimes permanently.
“My parents kept telling me
not to tell to anyone we were Jews, so that the Germans would not know”, Simcha
remembers. “So I started having feelings of guilt. I felt that I belonged to an
inferior class of people …”
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