The Consulate General of Greece in Boston on the Genocide of the Thracian Hellenes
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
With a photo of woven shirts from the early 20th century on which are embroidered place names of Eastern Thrace, the Consulate General of Greece in Boston reminds that today is the Day of Remembrance of the victims of the Genocide of Thracian Hellenism. The woven shirts belong to an installation of the Ethnological Museum of Thrace that was presented in 2022, on the occasion of the year of remembrance of the collective trauma and the 20th anniversary of the cultural institution.
These are 11 women's woven shirts from 10920-25 with the 732 place names of Eastern Thrace embroidered.
“Names embroidered on linen cenotaphs. As if a wound had watered the fabric for years. Shirts without the shape of any body. Shirts that were worn to the bone, still hold the chill of a lost life. Empty shirts. Linen flutters," says, among other things, the message accompanying the installation by the founder and president of the Ethnological Museum of Thrace, Angeliki Giannakidou.
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