The refugees and the fight against tuberculosis
Tuberculosis was the most serious disease affecting the urban centres…
Forced labour: from Kokkinia to Auerbach
On a cursed Thursday morning Traitors rounded us up on…
Mani, Mylasa, Bilbis, Nikaia: the many crossing paths of migration
According to his official documents, Ioannis (Giannis) Feidopiastis was born…
Slogans on the wall of the Diavata refugee camp
The Diavata open reception facility for refugees (formerly Anagnostopoulos army…
The quarantine site of Makronisos
This is a photograph of the quarantine site that operated…
The ‘rehabilitative’ or ‘new’ prison of Thessaloniki
The ‘rehabilitative’ or ‘new’ prison of Thessaloniki was located on…
The Ancient Agora Square in the 1940s: ‘In those days…’. Extract from the book Refugee Capital by Y. Ioannou
In 1983, in his book Refugee Capital, Yorgos Ioannou documented…
The Acropolis of Thessaloniki
The Acropolis area has remained sparsely populated throughout the history…
The ghettos of Thessaloniki
The Germans invaded Thessaloniki in April 1941. The first restrictive…
The Kalamaria quarantine site
For many refugees, the public quarantine or decontamination site of…