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Minister Mendoni honored the memory of the Greek Jewish victims of Auschwitz
The Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, paid tribute to the memory of 53,000 Greek Jews, victims of the Nazi atrocity at the Auschwitz camp in Poland, during her visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. In the place of martyrdom, the collective memory is kept alive, so that these atrocities are never repeated. Lina Mendoni laid a wreath at the Black Wall, at the execution site of Auschwitz I camp, and the Memorial to the Greek Jews at Birkenau camp.
At the New York State Attorney's Office, Lina Mendoni received 11 ancient objects, which are being repatriated to Greece.
The repatriation, by the Head of the Antiquities Trafficking Unit Matthew Bogdanos, was achieved thanks to the long-standing and close cooperation between the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the Ministry of Culture.
Ancient Greek Vase returned to homeland in moving ceremony
An ancient Greek lekythos, a type of vase, has been returned to Greece after the Glencairn Museum in Pennsylvania discovered it was illegally removed from the country decades ago.