Salonika - A City with Amnesia

The documentary by filmmakers Max Geilke and Mario Forth (Cologne) traces the eventful history of Thessaloniki. Once a multicultural center where Christian, Jewish and Muslim people lived together, the city lost its diversity in the 20th century due to expulsion and deportation, especially by the German occupying forces. Today, only traces of this legacy remain, while a collective forgetting prevails. The film combines archive material with conversations with contemporary witnesses, residents of the city and members of the Jewish community in order to make the repressed past visible and pose the question of memory and identity anew.

This will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and Margret Hoppe and Karoline Mueller-Stahl. The event is part of the supporting program of the exhibition "The Memory of Stones. Traces of Jewish History and German Occupation in Thessaloniki" at the art center HALLE 14.