ΧΑΪΔΑΡΙ ΧΑΪΔΑΡΙ - ΣΥΝΑΝΤΗΣΗ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ | Page 13

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the great majority of which was transferred to concentration camps in Central Europe. The Chaidari camp, the
place where so many people suffered martyrdom, is today a symbol of hope for the prevalence of human
values over barbarism.
These are presented within the book in hand: Four meetings with history, four historical periods, four places
that define the historical trajectory of Chaidari.
The idea of refraining from a conventional town history and, instead, illuminating probably its most significant
aspects, belongs to mayor Kyriakos Nteniakos; an idea that we tried to materialize in the best possible way.
The scientifically accurate and at the same time easily understandable texts by Dr. Anastasia Leriou and the
editing and artistic design by Dimitris Lucas brought an exceptionally pleasing result.
At the end of each chapter there are added texts by George Vergopoulos, econoist and special associate
of the Municipality. These texts connect yesterday with today. The reader may see there the attempts by
the Municipality of Chaidari to rescue and promote its history; to attend, restore and enhance places and
monuments that belong to its residents, as well as to all Greeks.
The book, frugal, accurate and to the point, reveals its aim from the beginning: to illuminate the important, the
special, the great; to present the past of Chaidari, thus contributing to the formation of a rational view on the
management of this past.
Dr Giorgos Giannakopoulos
Historian – Librarian - Archivist