Desecration of the Holocaust monument in Thessaloniki

Alert DateJune 17, 2011 Country: Greece Address: Thessaloniki General Type: Racist violence, Racist discourse Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-semitism
Groups affected / Interested in: Religious minorities Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Religion Hate speech/Racist Discourse Medium: Public Discourse
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Unknown persons desecrated the Holocaust monument in Thessaloniki. They marked swastikas and erased the engraved text that lists the number of the Holocaust victims of Thessaloniki. The desecration of the monument took place a few days before the event price for hostage survivors of Nazi death camps by the City Council of Thessaloniki. These 30 members of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki and an Orthodox Christian community, who survived the Nazi atrocities, which the city of Thessaloniki will be honored for the first time with the highest honors of the city, provided for these cases.

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