"Twice Stranger" is the title of the major exhibition on the exchange of populations, which opens tomorrow at the Benaki Museum.
It opens tomorrow, 18 September, in the main building of the Benaki Museum (Koumbari 1) the "Twice Stranger" exhibition, on the occasion of their anniversary 90 years since the Asia Minor disaster. It is a tour of the largest exchanges and displacements of populations of the 20th century, from the Greek-Turkish exchange of 1923 until the mass movement of Germans and Poles after the end of World War II, as well as the partition of India, the creation of Pakistan the 1947 and Cyprus 1974.
The exhibition is based on personal testimonies and rare film and photographic material and will last until 25 November. It takes place within the framework of the Culture Program of the European Union and has already traveled to Istanbul and Nicosia, while in March it will be hosted by Stockholm and Luxembourg.
The "Twice Foreigner" exhibition is accompanied by events, which include live storytelling and a children's book among others, "the tree of memory" (exhibition with visitors' experiences and thoughts), Documentary screenings, as well as Culinary Evenings with references to India, Pontus and Asia Minor.
Source : kathimerini.gr




