Menorah in flames (Thessaloniki)

Coordinates: 40°38′01″N 22°56′17″E / 40.63352444°N 22.93799638°E / 40.63352444; 22.93799638
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Menorah in flames on Eleftherias Square

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 where a major roundup of 9,000 Jewish men took place in 1942.[1]

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.[1] The monument is regularly vandalized.

References

  1. ^ a b Marcou, Loïc (2022-03-18). "8. Mémoire de la destruction du cimetière juif de Thessalonique : quand un passé longtemps enfoui refait surface". Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah. N° 215 (1): 207–237. doi:10.3917/rhsho.215.0207. ISSN 2111-885X. S2CID 247689562. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

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