Vandals deface monument to victims of the Holocaust in Kastoria
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
Persons unknown, on Christmas night, dfaced the monument built in honor of the Kastoria Jews whom the Nazi occupation forces in March 1944 transferred and exterminated at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
The marble slab, with a simple inscription in Greek and English, which reminds of the atrocities suffered by the Jewish community of 1,000 inhabitants of the border city, is located at 15th Merarchia Street, where the Nazis gathered all the Jewish population of the city before their transfer to concentration camps.
The strangers splashed the two faces of the monument with black paint. The mayor of Kastoria, Anestis Angelis, condemned the act, saying the devastation of the monument that is a memorial to the Kastorian Jews who lost their lives in Nazi concentration camps and who had offered so much to the culture and economy of the city, was shameful. A little later, with the contribution of volunteers, the monument was restored.
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