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Pontic Youth of Attica spent a nighttime of remembrance under the slogan “We don’t forget”honoring the victims genocide of the Greeks of Pontus.
Union of Pontian Youth of Attica (Ένωση Ποντίων Νεολαίας Αττικής, EPONA) held a touching nighttime of remembrance successful grant of the victims genocide of the Greeks of Pontus. The enactment took spot successful the evening May 18on the eve of the memorable day May 19under the symbolic slogan “We don’t forget”.
According to Pontos Newsthe lawsuit was dedicated to the representation of the fallen Pontians and became portion of the commemorative events for the day genocide of Pontic Hellenism.
The programme started successful 20:00 from a philharmonic dedication. The participants performed songs and traditional Pontic tunes, maintaining a surviving transportation with civilization and humanities representation Ponta.
Participated successful the philharmonic portion Sokratis Xandtinidis – vocals, Alexandros Mikhailidis – Pontic lyre, Orpheas Kosmidis – dauli and Pavlos Fotiadis – lauto. Together they created not conscionable a performance program, but a space of representation where euphony became the connection of grief, dignity and continuity.
IN 21:00 a symbolic enactment followed “Dawn connected May 19”. Participants lit candles and held a nighttime vigil. In an ambiance of soundlessness and respect, candlelight became a symbol of memory, grant and the continuation of the Pontic tradition.
This evening was not an mean taste event. It became a reminder that the representation of 353,000 dead cannot beryllium reduced to a day connected a calendar oregon an authoritative ceremony. It is preserved by radical – particularly young people, who judge this representation not arsenic a depository exhibit, but arsenic portion of their ain identity.
This is the main meaning of such actions: past lives not lone successful archives, speeches and authorities statements. She lives successful a song, successful a candle, successful soundlessness and successful a committedness not to forget. Trite? Maybe. But sometimes it is the simplest gestures that turn retired to beryllium stronger than the adjacent authoritative text, written arsenic if it was compiled by a committee of bushed folders.
Source: Pontos News
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