Our activities for the memorial of May 19th,
day of remembrance of the Pontian Genocide
Friday May 16th was alot of activities in our association. The whole evening, we made a big effort to honour the memory of the 353,000 victims who were brutally murdered by the Ottoman Turks. Not following our traditions, this year we expanded the activities from lectures to a excibition and a book presentation. Of course, the evening's highlight couldn't be anyone else than Mr Georgios Andreadis, but it was even a bigger honour for our association to be part and contribute to the translation of his most famous book "Tamama", which just been released in Swedish.

The evening started with an excibitiion of maps and books from the Greek Culturre Center here in Stockholm, which showed to be very appriciated by the people attending our premises. At the same excibition we also had a small book store with Mr Andreadis books which were sold out when the evening was over! The main event was Mr Andreadis lecture about the Pontian Genocide who tried to explain in his way what really happened in the dark years between 1915 and 1922. He also took us all by suprise when he finished his speech by reading a poem that he wrote especially for us Pontians here in Sweden! The poem will be available for download very soon here in our website. We ended the evening with a big presentation of the Swedish version of "Tamama" (it sold over 11 million books only in China!) together with the translator Mrs Elisabet Lundvall. It was and is a big honour for us to have been part of this presentation and we will be forwarding all marketing activities for this particular book in the future!