The Kaisariani canary

The olive oil hissed in the pan, a familiar morning song.

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The Greek government acquired more than 200 previously unknown photographs documenting the Nazi execution of 200 Greek #communists at #kaisariani on 1 May 1944 surfaced online after appearing for sale on eBay.
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Greece will seek to obtain Nazi execution photos offered for sale online A series of photos that seem to show the execution of 200 Greeks by Nazi soldiers in Athens appeared on eBay over the weekend.

Greece is sending experts to Belgium on Friday to meet with a collector of German World War II memorabilia after he put up for auction 12 photos that appear to show the final moments of 200 Greeks executed in Athens in 1944.

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TLF SPECIAL: Faces Before the Firing Squad. Greece Confronts the Lost Photos of the “200” For eighty-two years, the execution of the “200 of Kaisariani” lived in Greece as a story carried by witnesses, poems, and names carved on s...

TLF SPECIAL: Faces Before the Firing Squad. Greece Confronts the Lost Photos of the “200”

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#Griechenland Gut acht Jahrzehnte nach der Hinrichtung von 200 Griechen durch die Nazis im Athener Vorort #Kaisariani sollen erstmals Fotos der Hinrichtung aufgetaucht sein.

Blood on the hill

The cicadas screamed in the pines of Kaisariani Hill, a sound like a frying pan left too long on the stove.

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Stop for a widow

The Athenian sun hung heavy over the Kaisariani square, a bleached bone in the sky.

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Black widow, red secrets

Myrto Zervou adjusted her black shawl and peered through the lace curtains of her Kaisariani apartment.

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Kaisariani knife

Myrto Zervou fanned herself with yesterday’s newspaper, perched on her balcony, watching the neighborhood simmer.

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Detail, Door, 28 ΗΡΩΣ ΚΟΝΣΤΑΝΤΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ, Kaisariani, Athens, Greece, 2025.

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Spartacus Gym, Kaisariani, Athens, Greece, 2025

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Black dress, red trouble

Myrto Zervou fanned herself with yesterday’s newspaper, perched on her balcony, watching the Kaisariani streets simmer below.

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Juror's fear

Katerina, the quiet woman who had just been selected as a juror in the high-profile trial of a notorious loan shark.

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The permit problem

The summer heat clung to Kaisariani like a sweaty shirt. Myrto sat on her balcony fanning herself with an old newspaper watching the neighborhood hustle below.

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Blood on the junta’s poster

The evening air in Kaisariani was thick with the scent of jasmine and the distant hum of motorbikes.

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Myrto’s Law

Blood on the projector glass

The summer heat clung to Kaisariani like a sweaty shirt.

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