“We feel emotion and pride. My grandfather was a hero.” With these words, Thrasyvoulos Marakis speaks about Thrasyvoulos Kalafatakis, one of the roughly 200 mainly communist Greek political prisoners and hostages executed by a Nazi firing squad in the Athens suburb of Kaisariani on Labor Day in 1944.

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