Execution Island, Corfu
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Jim Potts wrote to me 'I am interested in the suggestion that Theodorakis' brother may have been buried on Lazaretto Island. What is your source for this information? It seems very unlikely to me. I have a book in Greek about all the executions that took place, and I do not recall any mention of this. Jim
Jim. My source went unchecked. See the comment by Kerkira (Jenny Mulder) - on this photo.
(quote) This is a photo of the islet Lazaretto. Lazaretto was the execution area for at least 112 political prisoners of Corfu between 1942-1944 and 1947-1949. A couple of years ago an old man told me terrible stories how people (mostly communists from the Epirus Mainland) were executed there. To make things legal there was even a public prosecutor present during the executions. The brother of Mikis Theodorakis is also buried here. Every year Mr Theodorakis comes to Corfu to visit the grave of his brother (unquote)
On reflection I wonder if 'brother' might mean 'comrade'. The album of songs that Theodorakis composed supplemented this account - To Tragoudi Tou Nekrou Adelfou-Lipotaktes
en.mikis-theodorakis.net/index.php/article/articleview/31...
Message from Jim Potts on 16 July 2012: Simon, Now back in Corfu for a few days. Today will be the hottest day of the year. Anyway, I checked the book by the Lazaretto Association: "Yia sas adelfia: The Corfu and Lazaretto Prisons 1947-1949" (in Greek; Athens 1996). It has a complete list of all those who were executed- ten pages with all relevant details of 112 people. No mention of any Theodorakis. I don't think the book contains any mention of a visit to Lazaretto by Mikis Theodorakis, so if "The Ballad of the Dead Brother" drew any inspiration from Corfu's Lazaretto Prison, I imagine it would have been part of a more general sense of the tragedy of a fratricidal civil war. Jim
See also: somatio-lazareto.gr/el/
Execution Island, Corfu
democracystreet.blogspot.com/search?q=execution+island
See also: www.flickr.com/photos/sibadd/3748190033/
Jim Potts wrote to me 'I am interested in the suggestion that Theodorakis' brother may have been buried on Lazaretto Island. What is your source for this information? It seems very unlikely to me. I have a book in Greek about all the executions that took place, and I do not recall any mention of this. Jim
Jim. My source went unchecked. See the comment by Kerkira (Jenny Mulder) - on this photo.
(quote) This is a photo of the islet Lazaretto. Lazaretto was the execution area for at least 112 political prisoners of Corfu between 1942-1944 and 1947-1949. A couple of years ago an old man told me terrible stories how people (mostly communists from the Epirus Mainland) were executed there. To make things legal there was even a public prosecutor present during the executions. The brother of Mikis Theodorakis is also buried here. Every year Mr Theodorakis comes to Corfu to visit the grave of his brother (unquote)
On reflection I wonder if 'brother' might mean 'comrade'. The album of songs that Theodorakis composed supplemented this account - To Tragoudi Tou Nekrou Adelfou-Lipotaktes
en.mikis-theodorakis.net/index.php/article/articleview/31...
Message from Jim Potts on 16 July 2012: Simon, Now back in Corfu for a few days. Today will be the hottest day of the year. Anyway, I checked the book by the Lazaretto Association: "Yia sas adelfia: The Corfu and Lazaretto Prisons 1947-1949" (in Greek; Athens 1996). It has a complete list of all those who were executed- ten pages with all relevant details of 112 people. No mention of any Theodorakis. I don't think the book contains any mention of a visit to Lazaretto by Mikis Theodorakis, so if "The Ballad of the Dead Brother" drew any inspiration from Corfu's Lazaretto Prison, I imagine it would have been part of a more general sense of the tragedy of a fratricidal civil war. Jim
See also: somatio-lazareto.gr/el/