It’s called “Jumping Off The Cliff” – A journal by Zoe Lambros, translated from Greek to English by Mary D. Brooks.
Zoe’s journal will feature her thoughts, experiences and the journey to Egypt after she leaves Larissa with Eva. The journal will have images related to the journey and other assorted little tidbits from Zoe.
A sneak peek at the first entry has been posted to Mary D. Brooks May Newsletter #2
2nd Edition available now to pre-order – Contains additional material new to this edition
The fourth installment of the Intertwined Souls Series, Awakenings, continues the journey of two extraordinary women, Eva Haralambos and Zoe Lambros to Greece and Germany. Having gone back to Greece to reclaim Zoe’s inheritance after the Greek Civil War had ended, they are confronted by their own haunted memories and secrets.
Eva not only has to deal with her wartime memories in a town that despised her, but she also has to contend with a figure from her past. The festive wedding of a wartime hero brings to light Eva’s strength in facing her fears.
Zoe contends with own harrowing memories and relives a day that shattered her soul but out of the darkness there is light.
They get help from two formidable women—Zoe’s Aunt, Dr. Stella Nikas-Lambros, an exuberant, zany character in her own right, and Theresa Mitsos, the quiet, gentle soul with extraordinary paranormal abilities.
In Germany they discover secrets that have spanned generations and shocking revelations. Their lives are once again altered in ways neither of them expected.
Follow this emotional journey of Eva and Zoe. It’s more than a lesbian romance. Secrets are revealed, new abilities are found and risks are taken.
Walking With Angels – a journey of loss, discovery of hope, love and finding angels where you least expect them.
Walking With Angels is a series based on the characters of Dr Stella Nikas-Lambros and Theresa “Tessa” Mitsos. It’s a historical lesbian romance set during the early 20th Century (1917+) with supernatural/paranormal elements.
Dr Stella Nikas-Lambros has spent the last two years mourning the death of her beloved husband Timothy on the battlefields of France. The war is still raging and Stella wants to continue the work her husband started with shell shocked soldiers and the mentally ill. She begins her internship at the Saint Gregori’s Insane Asylum in Athens where being a woman has it’s own challenges in a male dominated world.
Conservative is not how you would describe Stella Nikas-Lambros– outrageous in dress and demeanor. She’s a shock to both doctors and patients alike. She’s a breath of fresh air in the wards filled with despair.
Theresa “Tessa” Mitsos is a young woman who is confined to the insane asylum, at her own request. She’s not insane and she’s not demon possessed as many believe. Tessa can see visions of the future; visions that haunt the young woman of things yet to come. Wanting to find a cure for her mental illness, Tessa is prepared to do everything she can to achieve that goal. She doesn’t want to see the future, she doesn’t want to move objects with her mind. She wants to be a normal girl; fall in love, have children and lead an ordinary life. We don’t always get what we want and for Tessa Mitsos, there is nothing ordinary about her.
Against policy of not befriending the patients, Stella reaches out to Tessa and a friendship is born. A friendship that leads to more than they imagined. Together they work towards finding the reason for Tessa’s extraordinary paranormal powers.
It’s a journey of loss, discovery, love and finding angels where you least expect them.
My first book “In The Blood of the Greeks” deals with Eva and Zoe trying to help Jews escape from Larissa Greece. Thessaloniki (or Thessalonica) is about 150 km from Larissa. The trains shipping Jews from Athens went through Larissa before they went to Thessalonica. Here’s an interesting article about this. Thessalonica and Larissa had the highest concentration of Jews in Greece. After the war, the Jewish communities were shattered.
Thessaloniki Jews remember 72nd anniversary of transport to Nazi Germany’s death camps
THESSALONIKI, Greece – Residents of Greece’s second-largest city on Sunday placed flowers on train tracks and inside old cattle wagons in solemn remembrance of nearly 50,000 local Jews who were transported to Nazi death camps during World War II.
About 2,000 people joined together at Thessaloniki’s Freedom Square for the 72nd anniversary of the roundup and deportation of the Jews. Some held banners that said: “Racism Kills, Let’s Learn from History,” and “Never Again.”
The crowd then marched to the northern city’s old railway station, where the first of 19 trains departed for the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex on March 15, 1943.
A locomotive believed to have been used to transport Jews, and four carriages that normally would carry cattle and in which people spent nine days locked up on their way to the extermination camps, were at the station. The crowd laid flowers on the wagons and the tracks.
“It was a horrible, mournful, rainy day. Even the skies were weeping,” recalled Heinz Cunho, 87, one of fewer than 100 surviving Greek Jews who made it back from the camps. “Normally, the carriages held 50 people. There were 80 of us to a wagon, and they had us locked up throughout the nine-day trip.”
Greece’s government has decided to include among its demands for German World War II reparations a sum, today equivalent to 50 million euros ($53 million), paid as a ransom to Nazi occupiers in 1942 to free about 10,000 Jewish men used as slave laborers in Greece. They were freed, but still sent subsequently to death camps.
Jews, mostly Sephardic refugees from Spain and its Inquisition, formed the majority of Thessaloniki’s inhabitants from the 16th to early 20th centuries. Their numbers dwindled in the early 20th century.
Of the 46,091 Thessaloniki Jews sent to the camps, 1,950 survived. Others avoided the camps by either joining the partisan resistance or escaping to Turkey by boat, with the help of residents, and making it to the Middle East. Today, the Jewish community in the city of nearly 800,000 numbers fewer than 2,000.
“We are marching upon the footsteps that Greek Jews marched back then. We must remain united and opposed to Nazism, racism and anti-Semitism,” said David Saltiel, head of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community.
Some photos (photos courtesy of Associated Press)
Mina Beneroubi, a survivor of the Holocaust, right, places flowers on rails at the old train station of Thessaloniki, in the Greek northern town of Thessaloniki, on Sunday, March 15, 2015. Residents of this northern Greek city on Sunday marked the 72nd anniversary of the roundup and deportation of its Jews to Nazi extermination camps during World War II. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos) (The Associated Press)
A girl stands in front of a train wagon that was used by the Nazis to carry Jews from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz during WWII, in the Greek northern town of Thessaloniki, on Sunday, March 15, 2015. Residents of this northern Greek city on Sunday marked the 72nd anniversary of the roundup and deportation of its Jews to Nazi extermination camps during World War II. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos) (The Associated Press)
A woman places flowers inside a train wagon that was used by the Nazis to carry Jews from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz during WWII, in the Greek northern town of Thessaloniki, on Sunday, March 15, 2015. Residents of this northern Greek city on Sunday marked the 72nd anniversary of the roundup and deportation of its Jews to Nazi extermination camps during World War II. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos) (The Associated Press)
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