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Raphael Mousis: All these are from Ioannina. The tray with the glasses where sweets were offered.
Raphael Mousis: Let me show you something.
Raphael Mousis: It's for circumcision. It also has the belt with the Star of David over there.
Michalis Daskalakis Giontis: Of course. Look at these spoons now.
Michalis Daskalakis Giontis: These are from your mother's family.
Raphael Mousis: Everything is from my mother's family.
Raphael Mousis: The decorated one is Dr. Nisim Levis, who was in Preveza.
Raphael Mousis: But I draw your attention to who the two signatories are. You can see it.
Raphael Mousis: King Constantine, on one side and the Minister of Military Affairs Eleftherios Venizelos.
Michalis Daskalakis Giontis: It's historic.
Raphael Mousis: Because Constantine and Eleftherios Venizelos were still speaking to each other.
Raphael Mousis: And he received this medal.
Raphael Mousis: Because for the services he offered during the period of liberation, Preveza.
Raphael Mousis: Most of the decorations belong to Nisim, to Davitson Effendi, except for the Liberation Cross which is here, there it is. This one belongs to Aneta.
Raphael Mousis: These decorations of Davitson Effendi were given during the Ottoman Empire.
Michalis Daskalakis Giontis: Exactly. Except for the Grand Cross of George.
Raphael Mousis: This must be it.
Raphael Mousis: With the crown.
Raphael Mousis: These are Ottoman.
Raphael Mousis: Nisim Davits is the brother of my mother's father.
Raphael Mousis: He is the son of Davitson Effendi. That's right.
Raphael Mousis: And my mother's father is also the younger son of Davitson Effendi.
Raphael Mousis: When my father and mother went to Ioannina after the liberation, and found the house, my mother's paternal home, burned, returning to their hotel, in the square of Ioannina, they heard a child's voice shouting "One franc for the panorama, one franc for the panorama."
Raphael Mousis: They approached and the panorama was this box, which had somehow been saved from the fire and obviously someone had this little child and for one drachma you could see here, 24 photographs.
Raphael Mousis: Photographs by Nesim Levi, who was a doctor by profession, amateur photographer, studied at the Sorbonne and had acquired this camera, which had two lenses and took the photograph and the little glass which...
Raphael Mousis: This is the photograph.
Raphael Mousis: If you look at it with the naked eye, I think you see the same image twice.
Raphael Mousis: But one image has the difference from the other, the one that your right eye has when you look at me from your left eye.
Raphael Mousis: And that's why when you look at it inside this box, you get the sensation of three-dimensional viewing.
In the last part of the interview, Rafael Moses presents valuable family heirlooms that were rescued from Ioannina and record the history of the Jewish community of the city. He shows traditional Yannish objects such as trays and dessert glasses, circumcision tools with the Star of David, as well as rare medals and awards. Of particular importance is the medal of doctor Nissim Levi from Preveza, signed by King Constantine and Eleftherios Venizelos, at a time when the two were still working together. He also mentions the Ottoman decorations of Davichon Efendi and the Red Cross of Aneta. Particularly moving is the story of the stereoscopic box discovered by his parents in Ioannina after liberation, which contained 24 three-dimensional photographs of Nesim Levi and had been made into a toy by a child who offered it for one drachma in the town square.
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Raphael Mousis: All these are from Ioannina. The tray with the glasses where sweets were offered.
Raphael Mousis: Let me show you something.
Raphael Mousis: It's for circumcision. It also has the belt with the Star of David over there.
Michalis Daskalakis Giontis: Of course. Look at these spoons now.
Michalis Daskalakis Giontis: These are from your mother's family.
Raphael Mousis: Everything is from my mother's family.
Raphael Mousis: The decorated one is Dr. Nisim Levis, who was in Preveza.
Raphael Mousis: But I draw your attention to who the two signatories are. You can see it.
Raphael Mousis: King Constantine, on one side and the Minister of Military Affairs Eleftherios Venizelos.
Michalis Daskalakis Giontis: It's historic.
Raphael Mousis: Because Constantine and Eleftherios Venizelos were still speaking to each other.
Raphael Mousis: And he received this medal.
Raphael Mousis: Because for the services he offered during the period of liberation, Preveza.
Raphael Mousis: Most of the decorations belong to Nisim, to Davitson Effendi, except for the Liberation Cross which is here, there it is. This one belongs to Aneta.
Raphael Mousis: These decorations of Davitson Effendi were given during the Ottoman Empire.
Michalis Daskalakis Giontis: Exactly. Except for the Grand Cross of George.
Raphael Mousis: This must be it.
Raphael Mousis: With the crown.
Raphael Mousis: These are Ottoman.
Raphael Mousis: Nisim Davits is the brother of my mother's father.
Raphael Mousis: He is the son of Davitson Effendi. That's right.
Raphael Mousis: And my mother's father is also the younger son of Davitson Effendi.
Raphael Mousis: When my father and mother went to Ioannina after the liberation, and found the house, my mother's paternal home, burned, returning to their hotel, in the square of Ioannina, they heard a child's voice shouting "One franc for the panorama, one franc for the panorama."
Raphael Mousis: They approached and the panorama was this box, which had somehow been saved from the fire and obviously someone had this little child and for one drachma you could see here, 24 photographs.
Raphael Mousis: Photographs by Nesim Levi, who was a doctor by profession, amateur photographer, studied at the Sorbonne and had acquired this camera, which had two lenses and took the photograph and the little glass which...
Raphael Mousis: This is the photograph.
Raphael Mousis: If you look at it with the naked eye, I think you see the same image twice.
Raphael Mousis: But one image has the difference from the other, the one that your right eye has when you look at me from your left eye.
Raphael Mousis: And that's why when you look at it inside this box, you get the sensation of three-dimensional viewing.