Anniversary exhibition at the Hellenic Parliament for the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Disaster

Tomorrow, Thursday, November 24, the anniversary exhibition for the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Disaster opens, in the emblematic industrial building of the former Public Tobacco Factory at 218 Lenorman Street, which since 2000 has been entirely owned by the Hellenic Parliament.

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Disaster, the President of the Hellenic Parliament, Mr. Konstantinos Tasoulas, will inaugurate the “Stories of Survival: Refugees and work in the new homelands” exhibition at the Library of the Parliament in the former Public Tobacco Factory. professional integration of refugees in the new homelands and their contribution to the socio-economic life of Greece from the first years of their arrival until the 1940s.

At the same time, the President of the Parliament will inaugurate two more exhibitions, which frame the central one, making up a complementary and interactive exhibition complex that is being developed on the first floor of the Tobacco Factory.

In particular, the exhibition “1922 in the press”, which focuses on highlighting the journalistic record of the dramatic events that took place after September ’22, as they were captured in the press of the time (Greek, Asia Minor, expatriate and allophone ).

Also, the exhibition entitled “Refugees: 1922+ survival-integration”, in the context of which 27 artists, most of them of refugee origin, record their own micro-stories about ’22, transforming the struggle of survival and integration into 44 original works of different art forms, which they created especially for this exhibition.

Read more: “The need to remember”: Visual exhibition for the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe at the Epigraphic Museum

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