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Menorah In Flames (Thessaloniki)
''Menorah in flames'' is a sculpture created in 1997 by Nandor Glid as a Holocaust memorial commemorating deportation of the Thessaloniki Jews. The sculpture, initially built in a suburban area has been installed since 2006 on Eleftherias Square Eleftherias Square ( el, Πλατεία Ελευθερίας, ''Platía Eleftherías'', ) is a central square in downtown Thessaloniki, Greece. It takes its name from the Young Turk Revolution, which began in the square in 1908. The square is curr ... where a major roundup of 9,000 Jewish men took place in 1942. It was the first Holocaust memorial to be built on a public space in Greece and its installation marks a change of attitude of Greek officials towards the remembrance of the Holocaust. The monument is regularly vandalized. References {{coord missing, Greece Holocaust memorials The Holocaust in Greece Culture in Thessaloniki 1997 sculptures Monuments and memorials in Greece Jews and Judaism in Thessaloniki Outd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saloniki Holocaust Memorial
Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace. It is also known in Greek as (), literally "the co-capital", a reference to its historical status as the () or "co-reigning" city of the Byzantine Empire alongside Constantinople. Thessaloniki is located on the Thermaic Gulf, at the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. It is bounded on the west by the delta of the Axios. The municipality of Thessaloniki, the historical center, had a population of 317,778 in 2021, while the Thessaloniki metropolitan area had 1,091,424 inhabitants in 2021. It is Greece's second major economic, industrial, commercial and political centre, and a major transportation hub for Greece and so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
