A scientific evening on the occasion of the exhibition of the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki entitled “Snapshots of the Conquerors 1941-1944. The Assael collection” will be held at MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (Warehouse A, Pier A, Thessaloniki Port area) on Thursday 12 December 2024, 18:00-20:00. The event, during which the exhibition catalog will be presented, will feature historians and scholars of the period of the German Occupation.
Free participation for the public. There will be simultaneous interpretation (Greek-English).
Program of lectures
18:00
Introduction
Dr. Xenia Eleftheriou, Curator of the exhibition “Snapshots of the Occupiers 1941-1944. The Assael Collection”
18:10
Keynote speech
Rolf Sachsse, Professor of Photography, Bonn University
“Murderous Voyages. Amateur Photographs of German Occupation Soldiers”
18:40
Stratos Dordanas, Associate Professor of History, Department of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
“German military courts and “justice” administration in occupied Greece (1941-1944)”
19:00
Dr. Nefeli Liontou, Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA)
“The thread of images: photographs of the occupiers in Thessaloniki (1942-1943) from the archive of the Etablissement de Communication et de Production Audiovisuelle de la Défense (Ecpad), France”
19:20
Discussion
Exhibition organization: Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki
Exhibition curator: Dr. Xenia Eleftheriou
Research advisor: Andreas Assael
The exhibition “Snapshots of the occupiers 1941-1944. The Assael collection” is organized by the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki and the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, and is realized with the financial support of the Hellenic-German Fund for the Future and with the support of the MOMus-Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki.