ASF Monthly – Albert Memmi’s Multitudes

n Memory of Rosa Asser, A”H, the Mother of Solomon “Sonny” Asser, an ASF Advisory Board Member and President of the American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece. Within the Jewish Museum of Greece’s family, “she was better known as  Rozina Pardo, the hidden child of the Occupation, who shared her childhood odyssey with courage and strength, as many times as she was asked, with the museum audience, with the teachers in the annual seminars of the JMG, with pupils and students, tirelessly serving the memory and education on the Holocaust, in her own unique way. With the support of her original childhood diary,  kindly donated to the JMG, her story, which was first presented with another 15, in the exhibition ‘Hidden Children in Occupied Greece’ in 2003, along with her active, dynamic speech, inspired many with the values of life, dignity, respect and solidarity. A film, interviews, speeches and presentations in Greece and abroad, made her a worthy voice, widely heard for years, ably representing all those who were violently silenced by the Holocaust.” She “made an important contribution to, and the understanding of, 20th century Jewish and Sephardic/Greek Jewish history.”  With “my deep felt sympathy and condolences” ~David E.R. Dangoor, President, The American Sephardi Federation.