{"id":235,"date":"2026-10-19T21:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borntwice.24ores.gr\/euclid-tsakalotos-excellent-i-wish-europes-leaders-would-see-it-too\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T21:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:34:47","slug":"euclid-tsakalotos-excellent-i-wish-europes-leaders-would-see-it-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borntwice.24ores.gr\/en\/euclid-tsakalotos-excellent-i-wish-europes-leaders-would-see-it-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Euclid Tsakalotos: \u201cExcellent \u2013 I wish Europe\u2019s leaders would see it too\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at Cinobo Opera I saw the new documentary by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stelioskouloglou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Stelios Kouloglou<\/strong><\/a>, \u201cBorn Twice\u201d. It is a truly excellent work, with enchanting music by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Panagiotis.Kalantzopoulos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Panagiotis Kalantzopoulos<\/strong><\/a> and an exceptionally careful production in both sound and editing.<\/p>\n<p>The film tells the story of a child whose mother managed to push him out of the wagon of a train heading to Auschwitz. He survived, grew up and became a lawyer and a jazz musician. His mother, however, did not make it.<\/p>\n<p>It is a deeply reflective film about collective memory, human dignity and forgiveness \u2013 a forgiveness captured movingly through his later friendship with the son of a Nazi and collaborator.<\/p>\n<p>A man full of love for life, who shares his experience with schoolchildren, reminding all of us, young and old, of the true meaning of solidarity in these dark times.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone should see it.<\/p>\n<p>I wish the European leaders who govern us would see it too \u2013 those who today choose to turn a blind eye (when they are not actively supporting them) to modern-day genocides, the rise of racism and the erosion of the values of our time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at Cinobo Opera I saw the new documentary by Stelios Kouloglou, \u201cBorn Twice\u201d. It is a truly excellent work, with enchanting music by Panagiotis Kalantzopoulos and an exceptionally careful production in both sound and editing. The film tells the story of a child whose mother managed to push him out of the wagon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borntwice.24ores.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borntwice.24ores.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borntwice.24ores.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borntwice.24ores.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borntwice.24ores.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borntwice.24ores.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borntwice.24ores.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borntwice.24ores.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borntwice.24ores.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borntwice.24ores.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}