He did not know the meaning of the word submission… He refused to sign… He did not take a single step back from what he believed in. He stood there with his head held high, his conscience clear, embracing the ideology he defended, and saluted the world. “Long live Greece, long live the Communist Party of Greece (KKE),” he shouted together with his 199 comrades at the wall of Kaisariani, on that blood-stained May Day of 1944.
Nikos Negrepontis, originally from Smyrna, served as a Municipal Councillor in Kavala, in the first municipality that elected a communist mayor. A leading figure in the struggles of tobacco workers, he was persecuted, imprisoned, exiled and tortured for his ideas before ultimately being executed.
Actress, writer and director Mina Negreponti is a guest on the program “Time in Greece” with Nikolas Angelidis. She reveals lesser-known aspects of the life and struggles of her uncle, the hero of Kaisariani, as well as of her father, who was exiled to Makronisos and later ended up in the German camps—places of unimaginable suffering.