Jewish community of Kastoria, Greece; Sephardic school for children

Identifier
irn562748
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2017.323
  • RG-60.0140
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

EXT pan of a building. Children stand outside. Pan, shopfronts with signs in Greek, crumbling stone wall on Metropole Street. A man with hat walks along the street. Houses over a lake, pan coastline. Residences, laundry hanging from balcony. A woman walks in the street. Another woman steps outside her house. A man walks towards her and they shake hands. Cobblestone streets in Kastoria with local people walking around, including Nona, Sol, and Victor Hazan. A woman does the washing in a body of water. A group of men in hats and long jackets walk towards the camera. Pan, building with balconies. [brief black] People, under umbrellas, walk down the street. Two cobblers sit on the street, cobbling shoes. Kastorians pose for the camera in a shop doorway, including a group of businessmen with Hazan (seen earlier). Outdoor vendors. Hazan shakes hands with another man. More outdoor vendors (fruit, fabric, etc.). 04:02 Unknown location in Greece, a herd of donkeys on a hillside. Local poor people, donkeys mill about. An outdoor marketplace. Meats and shoes for sale. 05:13 Isaac Elias shakes hands with another man in front of a building with a sign in Greek (his money exchange business). HAS, woman weaving on sidewalk. At the Elias residence, an elderly woman holds a baby, flanked by two small children. An elegantly dressed woman joins carrying a baby, posing for the camera. Other men on street posing, adjusting their hats. Brief shot of poor women huddled outdoors on a street. Field with donkeys. A car. The driver poses near to it. Group of men, pose with a donkey. Blacksmith. A man and his lambs; he holds a knife to one lamb’s neck, simulating a kosher kill. 07:40 School at the Sephardic synagogue in Kastoria, doorway with Greek and Hebrew. A boy and a girl stand beside a sign in Hebrew/Ladino: “Hebrew Message to America; Welcome Bocko Mayo... Friendship and truth is the motto of society]” Another girl joins.

Note(s)

  • Footage from the Sam H. Elias Collection was featured in the 2016 documentary "Trezoros" directed by Larry Confino and Lawrence Russo. The film illustrates the Greek Sephardic community of Kastoria. Of the 1000 Jews who lived in Kastoria before the Holocaust, only 35 survived.

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