“It is my honor, Mr. Mizan, that I met you and I will be able to talk about you to my children,” noted Athens’ youngest mayor, Kostas Bakoyannis in his moving post about his meeting with 93-year-old Isaak Mizan, a Holocaust survivor from Greece.
Isaak Mizan was captured on March 24th, 1944, in Arta, Greece together with his parents, three sisters, and their children. Only he and one of his sisters survived.
Seventy-six years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Greece remembers the victims of the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust, including tens of thousands of Greek Jews who were victims of the horrific brutality.
“Isaac Mizan is 93 years old. He is from Arta and was introduced as a ‘graduate of Auschwitz.’ Where his two sisters and both parents were killed. In the Holocaust where 60,000 Greek Jews and millions of our fellow human beings were massacred,” he noted.
“He was sitting today at the ceremony for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, despite his advanced age, defying the cold and the fear of the coronavirus. As soon as our National Anthem was heard, Mr. Mizan grabbed the arms of the wheelchair and stood up. Upright and imperious.”
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