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Local Luminaries Series at Goodnow Library Honors Greek Culture

The Friends of the Goodnow Library Local Luminaries series continues on March 2, 2014 at 3:00

p.m.  This program will feature

fascinating conversations on the rich cultural heritage of Greece as experienced by two local families.  The first speaker is Sara Cohen, an artist, art educator in the Boston school system,

and a video documentary producer.  A

Greek Jewish woman born in Athens to parents who survived the Holocaust, Sara

has created and produced two documentaries about her culture, sharing survival

stories of her relatives in their Jewish neighborhood in Greece.  The second portion of the program will engage

us with the story of Dimitris Spiliakos, an attorney from

Thessaloniki, Greece who, throughout the course of World War II, helped several

Jewish families escape to Athens and arranged for continued assistance that

kept them safe during the German occupation. His grandson and namesake,

Dimitris Spiliakos, will present this heroic and inspiring tale.





 





This event is part

of an ongoing series.  For more

information on this and other events, visit www.goodnowlibrary.org.

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Admission is free and

refreshments will be served.  Goodnow

Library is located at 21 Concord Road, Sudbury, MA.  978-443-1035

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