2024-05-29 15:46:30
On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, the e-book “Antigone N. Zouroudi – The Mom of the Dodecanese” by Anna Haritou-Andriotakis might be introduced within the Corridor “Panos Chaldezos” of Estia Nea Smyrni (Konstantinou Palaiologou 1, Nea Smyrni, Attica), at 18:30.
The e-book might be introduced by Fotini Pazartzi, Professor on the Regulation College of the College of Athens, holder of the “Konstantinos Karamanlis” Chair on the Fletcher College of Regulation and Diplomacy at Tufts College in Boston.
The author Anna Haritou will discuss her three-year journey by the Archives of the Nationwide and the
Parochial and Native Dodecanese Kind and the opposite major sources, which formed the mosaic of the character of an essential lady from Chalki, Antigone Zouroudi, whose identify was accompanied by the honorary title “Mom of the Dodecanese”.
The heroine of the e-book, in 1931, based the primary girls’s charity in Athens
“Dodecanese Bee”, and was put in cost of a giant charity marketing campaign for the safety of the refugees of her compatriots who arrived daily throughout the interwar interval, from the Italian-occupied islands of the Dodecanese to the Basin of Attica. This Affiliation is alive to this present day, granting scholarships solely to Dodecanese college students.
In 1936, Antigoni Zouroudi based the “Dodecanese Sunday College”, which operated six colleges in Athens and Piraeus, with the intention of preserving and strengthening the Greek identification of their expatriate Dodecanese college students. Amongst different issues, Antigoni Zouroudi and her colleagues undertook the development of a marble statue of Patmios Filikos and Hero of the Revolution of 1821, Dimitrios Themelis, and placement of the statue on his tomb, within the Backyard of Heroes of the Holy Metropolis of Messolonghi.
With the declaration of conflict, in 1940 it was based by the daughter of Antigoni Zouroudi, the physician
Pasithea Zouroudi, the “Union of Mental Dodecanese Girls” with founding and energetic member and later its honorary President, Antigone. Through the Italo-German occupation, the Union developed an important resistance motion, and after the Incorporation of the Dodecanese, in 1947, it helped to revive the damages and strengthen the inhabitants of the smallest and poorest islands of the Dodecanese, who survived within the place of their start, after 638 years of slavery.
The above two Girls’s Organizations and the third of the “Colleges”, for essentially the most half additionally feminine, impress with their motion, as a result of with braveness and sacrifices, Dodecanese girls contributed to the achievement of the Nationwide Objective, the Integration of the Dodecanese into Mom Greece .
To this excellent feminine character, her colleagues on the “Dodecanese Sunday College”, to honor her for her work and her resistance motion throughout the Italian-German occupation, awarded the coveted title “The Mom of the Dodecanese”.
Inside the greater than 400 pages of the e-book, the life and work of this distinctive lady unfolds, citing many major sources and texts by each Antigone Zouroudis and her collaborators and the press of the time. The texts are accompanied by photographic materials, and within the Appendices the reader will get to know the Zouroudis Household and extra sources and unique texts from the motion and legacy of this nice lady.
The occasion is organized by mgk. publications, ESTIA of Nea Smyrni, the Dodecanese Bee and the Home of Europe in Rhodes.
The e-book may also be introduced in Rhodes, on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, at 19:00, within the New Wing of the Museum of Fashionable Greek Artwork of the Municipality of Rhodes
A number of phrases about Anna Haritou
Anna Haritou was born in Piraeus and grew up in Rhodes the place she nonetheless lives at this time. He comes from Symi and Nisyros.
He graduated from the Larger Agricultural College of Athens and labored on the Ministry of Agriculture, within the discipline of agricultural analysis. He is aware of three overseas languages, English, Italian and French
He’s the writer of the e-book “The Butterfly of Rhodes” (ISBN 978-618-84257-0-5), which has been efficiently printed in a number of editions.
It has demonstrated wealthy cultural and social exercise. Amongst different issues, he’s a founding member of the Home of Europe in Rhodes, through which he served as its president for six years and is presently its “honorary president”.
He has been a member, since 1995, of the Rhodes Committee of the “Dodecanese Bee”.
Bibliographic reference: Andriotaki-Charitou, Anna, “Antigone N. Zouroudi – The Mom of the Dodecanese”,
Rhodes, mgk.promoting Publications, 2024
ISBN: 978-618-84257-7-4
© 2024, Anna Charitou-Andriotaki. All rights reserved.
Creator: Anna Andriotaki-Charitou
Cowl: Design by Michael G. Kavouklis, Portrait by G. Saklaridis, Portrait Pictures by Pavlos
Tsokunoglou
Closing pagination and modifying: Michael G. Kavouklis
Version: mgk.promoting – www.mgk.com.gr