Holocaust Memorials - Monuments, Museums and Institutions in Commemoration of Nazi Victims

in detail

The monument is in the city centre of Chalkida in Messapion Street, on the edge of the Jewish cemetery.

 

Until September 1943, Chalkida was under Italian occupation. When Italy capitulated and the German Wehrmacht took over the Italian occupied zone, the new occupying power began taking repressive measures against the Jews.

 

On 25 March 1944, 155 Jewish residents of Chalkida were taken by train to Larissa and from there to the Auschwitz–Birkenau extermination camp.

 

The monument was erected between 1998 and 2000.

In September 1943, Chalkida came under German occupation. The repression of the Jews began. In March 1944, 155 Jewish residents were deported first to Larissa and from there to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The monument was erected between 1998 and 2000.

25 March 1944
155 Jewish residents of Chalkis arrested and deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp

1998 to 2000
Monument erected on the edge of the old Jewish cemetery