NAMES IN THE NEWS : Israel Honors Greece’s Tsatsou
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ATHENS — Israel today awarded Ioanna Tsatsou, the widow of a former Greek president, the title Righteous of Nations for helping save the lives of Jews during the Nazi occupation of Greece.
An Israeli diplomatic representative in Athens presented the award to Tsatsou, an author and sister of Nobel laureate George Seferis.
Of the 65,000 Greek Jews, only 6,500 survived the Holocaust, mostly through the efforts of Greek Christians who hid them.
Tsatsou’s husband, Constantine Tsatsos, was the first president after the end of Greece’s monarchy. He held the mostly ceremonial post from 1975 to ’80 and died in 1987.
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