This exhibition would be impossible without the contribution of the following persons and collections.
Special thanks to:
- Rousso family, for the images and documentary film “Trezoros – The Lost Jews of Kastoria”, which have been the initial trigger to create this exhibition.
- Mevorach family, for their archive images.
- Mrs. Andrea Matsa - Grass for the video with Buko Mayo's visit to Kastoria in 1937.
- Τον Κο Μάρτιν Ελάιας για την παραχώρηση του οπτικού υλικού (βίντεο) με την κινηματογράφηση της επίσκεψης του Βίκτωρ Χαζάν στην Καστοριά το 1936 από τον Σαμ Ελάιας.
- Mrs. Tsolakis (wife of AUTH Professor of Architecture, Panos Tsolakis) for the generous provision of material designed by her husband.
- Mr. Christos Kavadas, for their archive documents we were allowed to use.
- Mr. Spyros Anagnostou, for their archive documents and images we were allowed to use.
- Mrs. Meropi Sotiropoulou- Mangel, for the permission to use her artworks and the images
- Maestro Mr. Kostis Papazoglou for the permission to use the song “Adio Kerida” and orchestral piece “La Djovenika al Lager”, played on the exhibition home page.
- Mrs. Mariangela Hadjistamatiou for the permission to use her recordings of Sephardic songs heard in the exhibition.
- Mrs. Venetia Bakari for the photos provided.
- Mr. Evangelos Hekimoglou for their support in the section about the Kastoria community economic activity in Thessaloniki.
We are grateful to all those who inspired us create this exhibition, through their texts about the Jewish presence in Kastoria, in magazines such as KISE's “Chronicles” and in books, such as Thrasyvoulos Papastratis, Esther Franco, Panos Tsolakis, Berry Nahmia or Michael Molho.
Please find below the indicative literature directly linked to the Jewish presence in Kastoria:
- Papastratis, Thrasyvoulos. Tears in the lake. The story of the Jews in Kastoria, KISE, Athens 2010
- Tsolakis, Panos. The Jewish Quarter in Kastoria, Ed. Dedoussis, Thessaloniki 1994
- Nahmia, Berry. Cry for Tomorrow, Ed. Alexandria, Athens 2020
- Franco, Esther. Role play and the second generation of the Holocaust, Odos Panos, Athens 2012
- Molho, Michael. Histoire Des Israelites De Castoria, Thessaloniki 1938