U.S. Consulate Commemorates Staff Member Executed by Nazis during WWII, February 4, 2015

Dr. Yiorgos Antoniou presenting his lecture “Public and Private Memory of the Holocaust: Past, Present and Future” at the U.S. Consulate in Thessaloniki. (State Department Photo)
Dr. Yiorgos Antoniou presenting his lecture “Public and Private Memory of the Holocaust: Past, Present and Future” at the U.S. Consulate in Thessaloniki. (State Department Photo)

U.S. Consul Robert P. Sanders and U.S. Consulate General guests honored the memory of David Tiano, a Greek U.S. consulate employee of Jewish extraction who was executed by the Nazis in 1942.  Dr. Yiorgos Antoniou, research associate of the International Hellenic University gave a lecture and presented footage of Holocaust survivors recounting their memories of WWII in Thessaloniki, entitled “Public and Private Memory of the Holocaust:  Past, Present & Future.”