How many stories have we heard of human legends? People who did so many different things in life, who gained glory and money, but whose traces were lost with time, at least until the right “excavator” came along? John “Blackjack” Jerome is one such filmic figure, an immigrant from the dirt-poor village of Harakas in the Peloponnese who struck out for the United States in the early 1900s.

During the Nazi occupation of Greece in 1944, the Gestapo rounded up the roughly 300 Jews living on the isle of Crete. They were herded onto a cargo ship headed for the Greek mainland with Auschwitz as their ultimate destination, but were spared the gas chambers in a cruel twist: The British torpedoed the ship. No one survived.

Greece’s parliament voted to overhaul pensions and increase taxes on Sunday amid strikes and street protest.

Με εμφανή στόχο την αποκατάσταση των σχέσεων που δοκιμάστηκαν το τελευταίο διάστημα εξαιτίας της προσφυγικής κρίσης ο υπουργός Εξωτερικών, Νίκος Κοτζιάς μεταβαίνει αύριο στην Αυστρία και την Πέμπτη, στην Σλοβακία.