Img. ID: 463001
Who is Commemorated?
The approximately 150 members of the Jewish community of Alexandroupolis who were deported and murdered in the Holocaust.
Description:
The memorial is built facing a fenced and gated courtyard that is part of the property of the Metropolitan Church of St. Nicholas. This is an unusual monument since it is placed on the church property, in an area next to the Leontarideios School which houses the Alexandroupolis Ecclesiastical Museum. The fenced enclosure is locked, but one can get permission to enter from the museum located next door.
The paved courtyard is surrounded by several monuments of a religious (specifically Greek Orthodox) nature. The Holocaust monument is large and prominently sits at the far edge of the courtyard, opposite the entrance gate, and it is fully visible from the entrance. The rear of the monument can also be seen through the iron fence from the adjacent street.
The monument consists of a large rectangular rough stone base on which is set a menorah made of cut and polished rectangular marble blocks: A horizontal slab serves as the menorah base, and a smaller vertical block forms the trunk. Another horizontal slab resting on the trunk carries seven vertical blocks as menorah branches, atop each of which is a cut red stone emulating a lit flame.
Two lines of commemorative text in Greek are on the sides of the horizontal slabs facing the courtyard. The date of the arrests and deportations of the local Jewish Community are on the menorah trunk.
Inscriptions
ΕΙΣ ΑΝΑΜΝΗΣΙΝ ΤΟΥ ΟΛΟΚΑΥΤΩΜΑΤΟΣ
4
ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ
1943
ΤΩΝ ΕΒΡΑΙΩΝ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ
Translation: In memory of the Holocaust of the Jews of Alexandroupoli, March 4, 1943.
| Metropolitan Church of St. Nicholas, Alexandroupoli 681 32, Greece