Events from the Italian occupation, the war, the liberation and the integration of the Dodecanese with Greece, arsenic good arsenic invaluable testimonies astir the absorption of the Dodecanese, are included successful the caller publication – biography of Vasos Minaides, honorary president of the Panhellenic Federation of Hoteliers and the Rhodes Hoteliers' Association.
The work, entitled "Moments of History", unfolds the author's beingness from his puerility successful Karpathos and his apprenticeship successful Rhodes, to his studies successful Athens and his galore years successful Greek tourism. The communicative touches connected the archetypal steps successful the edifice manufacture successful Rhodes, the opening of unionism successful the manufacture successful the 1960s, arsenic good arsenic the governmental and economical inheritance that influenced the improvement of the tourism product.
The presumption volition instrumentality spot connected Sunday, October 5, 2025, astatine 6:00 PM (arrival from 5:30 PM), astatine the Apollo Blue Hotel league center. The pursuing volition talk astir the book:
- historian and emeritus prof of the National University of Athens Maria Efthymiou,
- former European Commissioner and Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos,
- political idiosyncratic and internationalist Eleftheria Ftaklaki,
- as good arsenic the writer Vasos Minaides himself.
The league volition beryllium moderated by writer and biographer of Mr. Minaides, Nektarios Kalogirou, portion excerpts volition beryllium work by Maria Manioti. After the event, a cocktail volition travel successful the hotel’s rotunda.
The work is published by “for nature” publications, with the Minaides household announcing that each proceeds from its merchantability volition beryllium allocated to enactment the charitable purposes of the “Dodecanese Bee” and the “Pancarpathian Association of Rhodes”.
Vassos Minaides notes characteristically connected the backmost cover:
“…I was calved a Karpathian, I grew up a Rhodesian and I unrecorded successful the Dodecanese.
I experienced Italian-occupied, German-occupied and past liberated Karpathos, escaped Rhodes, the integration of the Dodecanese, post-civil warfare Greece, the Athens of forgotten personalities, the improvement of tourism and the translation of hospitality into a mean that bridged the divided Europe. I met historical politicians up adjacent successful unimaginably quality moments and mean radical successful actions that wrote history.
For each of this; the events, the toil, the circumstances, the struggles, the successes and the upheavals, for the known and the chartless figures, I judge that the close clip has travel for maine to talk and archer them precisely arsenic I experienced them.”
Vasos Minaides.
The lawsuit is unfastened to the public.
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