Platia Eleftherias
Waterfront square of revolution and wartime roundup, marked by a flaming-menorah Holocaust memorial.
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This guide to Platia Eleftherias, Liberty Square in Thessaloniki, begins on a Saturday in July nineteen forty-two, when thousands of the city's Jewish men were ordered onto this square to register for work. It reaches back to the Young Turk revolution that gave the square its name, and to the Great Fire of nineteen seventeen and Ernest Hebrard's plan for a city rebuilt. Best heard near the memorial in the square's southern corner.
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