Heritage and Memory: A Focus on Jewish Greece (10-day virtual event starting on Jan.27)

The Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles, the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and Los Angeles Greek Film Festival announce the ten-day virtual event, "Heritage and Memory: A Focus on Jewish Greece", to be held from January 27 to February 6 in honor of Greece’s upcoming Presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), from March 1.

The event's program includes four prestigious speakers who will present views of Greece’s Romaniote and Sephardic communities to an international audience, as well as free screenings for twelve films that look at the Jewish communities of Thessaloniki, Ioannina, Kastoria, Zakynthos, and Rhodes. The majority of films will be available worldwide for online viewing throughout the entire ten days of the event.

The event is being held under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and supported by the philanthropists Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank. Partners include the Panepirotic Federation of America and the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.

Registration links for each online lecture can be found here: https://hellenic.ucla.edu/events/

Free tickets for film screenings can be found here: https://heritage.eventive.org/films

Read more about the virtual event: https://hellenic.ucla.edu/heritage-and-memory/