Film presentation and talk
- Wednesday, 23. September 2026 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Save in my calendar
“Tell Me”
Remembering Jewish Life in Thessaloniki
On September 23, the Heinrich Böll Foundation will screen “Tell Me”, a documentary by Greek director Nikos Megrelis, created in collaboration with Greek photographer Renee Revah.
How can memory remain alive when fewer and fewer survivors of the Shoah are able to share their experiences, and when these experiences are increasingly conveyed through photographs, documents, and personal narratives?
At the heart of the film is Renee Revah’s personal search for her family history. Her relatives were Greek Jews from Thessaloniki who were deported and murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
In the documentary, Renee Revah enters into an imaginary dialogue with her grandfather, the only survivor of her family. Taking the form of an exchange of letters between generations, the film explores the concept of transgenerational trauma and the often silent transmission of memory and grief from one generation to the next. As director Nikos Megrelis emphasizes, the documentary understands remembrance as an act of resistance. It is also concerned with the aftermath of the Holocaust: with silence, loss, and the identities that emerge in coming to terms with a trauma that remained unspoken for many years.
The history of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community as a major centre of Jewish life in Europe has received comparatively little attention to this day. The documentary therefore also invites to reflect on this heritage, its destruction, and on how Jewish history and Jewish life in Thessaloniki can be remembered and made visible today.
Discussion and Q&A
Following the screening, there will be a discussion with director Nikos Megrelis and Lola Angel, a Holocaust survivor from Athens who survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of six and is portrayed in the film. The discussion will be moderated by Michalis Goudis, Head of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Thessaloniki Office.
The documentary is in Greek with German subtitles and the discussion will take place in English.
A small reception will take place at the end of the documentary screening.
Contact: Ewa Peteja, ewa.peteja@boell.de
Files
- Address
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Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung - Headquarter Berlin
Schumannstr. 8
10117 Berlin
- Accessibility
- Language
- German
- English
- Greek
Your participation in the event
On-site participation at the Heinrich Böll Foundation Conference Centre, Schumannstr. 8, 10117 Berlin
Please register. Unfortunately, the number of places is limited. If the room capacity is exhausted, we will broadcast the event via video to other rooms. Please note that there is no guarantee of a place in the hall.
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