Maurice Leon

This is a photograph of me, from our trip to Abano in Italy in 2004. I retired four years ago. Now we are going to the movies, on excursions and various trips. I was never involved in Athens Jewish Community affairs, or in any other Jewish organization. On the contrary, my wife Yvette was fanatically involved in WIZO and she still continues to be. I believe she is doing very well and I am supporting her with whatever she is involved with. We never asked any compensation from any organization. We just once gave an interview to Spielberg's Foundation on our life during the war, but I've never spoken again on how life used to be before the war in Thessaloniki. I believe that Jews of the Diaspora are disappearing. There is also a trend of increasingly mixed marriages. This is a phenomenon not only here in Greece but also elsewhere. It makes me sad that the Jewish Diaspora is decreasing in numbers as years go by. It makes me sad to think that it has no future but is there anything that we can do about it?