These three days in Macedonia were further enriched by the collaboration with the Thessaloniki Film Festival, which organized a special evening with the director of the film The Last Note, dedicated to the massacres at the Haidari concentration camp. At Round Table discussion have partecipated Giorgos Antoniou- Historian (AUTH), Chryssa Tzelepi – film director, film producer – and Vlassis Vlasidis, Historian

The Haidari concentration camp (Greek: στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης Χαϊδαρίου; German: KZ Chaidari) was a concentration camp operated by the SS in the Athens suburb of Haidari during the Axis occupation. Active from September 1943 until its closure in September 1944, it was the largest and most notorious wartime concentration camp in Greece, becoming known as the “Bastille of Greece.” (source: wikipedia)

It functioned as a transit camp established on the grounds of a former Greek army barracks. It is estimated that approximately 21,000 people passed through the camp during its single year of operation, including Jews, Italian prisoners of war, and Greek political prisoners. Most of them were deported to Northern Europe—Jews primarily to Auschwitz, and others to forced labour camps in Germany.

The film describes German reprisal policies, which led to a sharp increase in executions, as in the case of the 200 communists executed on 1 May 1944 in Kaisariani in retaliation for the ambush and killing of German General Franz Krech by ELAS partisans at Molaoi in Laconia.

The screening immersed the audience and the conference participants in the atmosphere of Nazi repression in Greece.