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A railway ιστοσελίδα successful cardinal Greece where dozens of Greek Jews died during the Nazi World War II concern aft being conscripted for hard labour will beryllium restored and turned into a nationalist memorial and accumulation space, authorities said Friday.
The Culture Ministry said it has been handed work for the disused Karya railway station and its surrounding area, which belongs to the GAIAOSE railway existent property company.
“This is simply a archetypal step to restoring the monument, with the volition of preserving historical representation and protecting a ιστοσελίδα of peculiar value for Greece’s modern history,” a ministry statement said.
In 1943, German concern troops forcibly transported men from Thessaloniki’s Jewish assemblage to the site, to carve retired a ample railway cutting successful a stone done manual labour under a planned track enlargement for subject purposes. Brutal conditions led to dozens of deaths.
Practically Thessaloniki’s full Jewish assemblage was subsequently rounded up and sent to Nazi decease camps successful occupied Poland and elsewhere, where the vast bulk was murdered.
Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said the handover of the ιστοσελίδα from GAIAOSE “sets the foundations to start a systematic effort to reconstruct and show this historical ιστοσελίδα that bears the indelible signs of Nazi brutality.”
She said her ministry, which has already listed the station analyzable arsenic a historical site, wants to turn it into a restored, accessible venue where visitors tin larn astir the events of WWII.
“This is our historical indebtedness towards the victims of Nazi barbarity, and the request to sphere historical memory,” Mendoni said.
Surviving structures connected the ιστοσελίδα see the stone railway station, a well and the German service huts, the ministry said. The ample cutting successful the stone has besides survived, on with modern photographic documentation of the labour camp.
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