The exhibition focused on Dr. Nissim Levis’ artistic photography, which covers the time period from the last years of the Ottoman rule (1898-1913) and the following years of upheaval and change, until 1930.
It allowed the visitor a glimpse into the life of a prominent family, within a community belonging to the beautiful northern Greek town of Ioannina, just moments before the War ravaged it and changed the fabric of its society forever, through the murder of the great majority of its Jewish inhabitants.
The descendants of Nissim Levis’ family not only offered their constructive cooperation and substantial family research, but kindly agreed to lend for exhibition selected heirlooms from their cherished family collection. These included personal objects as well as Nissim’s stereoscopic photo viewer, all displayed together with relevant historical material from the Museum’s collections. The bilingual information panels complemented by multimedia elements, presented a large number of Nissim’s photographic images.
The exhibition was realised within the framework of a three-year programme of the Jewish Museum of Greece with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Athens and ran from January 22nd, 2018 until January 7th, 2019.
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