MEGARON PLUS
In collaboration with the Jewish Museum of Greece
Speakers:
Annette Wieviorka, Historian, Emeritus Research Director at CNRS (IRICE, Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Mark Weitzman, Director of Government Affairs, Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Chair of the Committee on Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)
Odette Varon-Vassar, Historian, Professor at the Hellenic Open University
The panel will examine the phenomenon of the Holocaust in Europe and Greece, its genesis in anti-Semitism and the current situation. There will also be discussion of the issue of the maturing of memory, and the policies of commemoration in the past and present.
With simultaneous translation