Holocaust Memorial
Bronze menorah whose flames are human bodies, marking the 1942 roundup of Jewish men on this square.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Holocaust Memorial in Thessaloniki starts on a Saturday morning in July nineteen forty-two, when the Jewish men of the city were ordered into Eleftherias Square. It follows the Sephardic Jews of occupied Salonica and the price that community was told to pay for its own people. Stand by the bronze menorah in the southeast corner of the square while you listen.
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