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The sun shone as Melbourne's Greek community joined with those from the wider community to commemorate the role of Lemnos in Australia's Gallipoli story. The annual service is held on the anniversary of the arrival of Australia's nurses on the Island in August 1915.
Dr. Leon Saltiel, a Thessaloniki-born historian and expert on the Holocaust in Greece, presented at Melbourne's Holocaust Museum on April 24. He discussed his award-winning books, "The Holocaust in: Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution, 1942–1943," and "Do Not Forget Me: Three Jewish Mothers Write to their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto."
Australian and Greek heads of state lead ground-breaking ceremony to inaugurate the Lemnos Remembrance Trail
It has been announced that their Excellencies the President of the Hellenic Republic, Ms Katerina Sakellaropoulou, and the Governor General of Australia, the Hon David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), will travel to the northern Aegean Island of Lemnos on 2-3 May and will attend the forthcoming Gallipoli commemorations to be held there on 3 May.
The delegation was accompanied by Secretary-General for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy, Mr Giannis Chrysoulakis, and was warmly greeted by Her Excellency