Press Release
The Jewish Museum of Greece presents its periodic exhibition «Like nails must the words be hammered». The Oral History Archive of the Jewish Museum of Greece.
The Oral History Archive (OHA) of the Jewish Museum of Greece had a small, simple beginning, just like many other things in life. The first twelve interviews were gathered in 2001-2002 for our temporary exhibition, “Hidden Children in Occupied Greece”. With this first documentation, the Jewish Museum of Greece laid the foundations for the OHA, without realising then how much it would develop and expand in a few years.
As the survivors are gradually taken from our midst by time, the recording of their living image, expression, words, memories and thoughts take on a crucial role in the Museum’s attempt to narrate history “from the below”, passing on the historical narrative from yesterday to today.
Alongside testimonies published in book form, we now also have audio and audiovisual sources, digital impressions, and the holographic representations of witnesses. The future no doubt holds more possibilities – and we are thankful for that, since these testimonies are an invaluable legacy of humanity; a repository of memory for the generations to come, and as such will always remain relevant and current.
An especially designed resource center within the exhibition allows visitors to examine other, international oral testimony archives of similar thematic focus, accessible to the JMG in its capacity as a research center.
The exhibition includes a presentation of photographic portraits of Greek Jewish Holocaust Survivors by artist Artemis Alcalay.
The exhibition will be hosted by the Jewish Museum of Greece from January 22 until January 15, 2021.
For more information you may contact the Jewish Museum of Greece at 39 Nikis St., 105 57 Athens, telephone: 210 – 32 25 582,
e-mail: info@jewishmuseum.gr – Working hours: Monday – Friday 09:00 – 14:30.
