"How the Press Covered the Epic of '40"translated

The Exhibition entitled "How the Press Covered the Epic of the 1940s" opens on Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 7:30 p.m., which is being organized at the YAMATH Administration of Thessaloniki. The Historical Memory Exhibition dedicated to the Epic of 1940 and the way in which the Greek press recorded those shocking 219 days of the War, is co-organized by the Ministry of the Interior of Macedonia-Thrace together with the Athenian Macedonian News Agency and the Associations of Editors of Athens (ESHEA), Macedonia-Thrace (ESHEM-Θ), Peloponnese, Epirus and Islands (E.S.H.E.P.H.N), Thessaly, Central Greece and Evia, in collaboration with ERT, the General Archives of the State and the "Christos Kalemkeris" Museum of Photography. Material was also drawn from the newspaper archive of the Hellenic Parliament.

Through the front pages that recorded History, the war responses from the Front as well as the "war" advertisements, the cartoons that were published in the newspapers as well as through the documents, relics and military uniforms, the visitors will have the opportunity to get to know the climate of the time and the way in which the morale of the Greeks was kept very high during...