Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and visiting Israeli President Reuven Rivlin went to Thessaloniki on Tuesday to lay the foundation stone for the building of a Holocaust Museum in the city, ANA reports.
The Museum will be constructed in an area with great symbolism, very near the old railway station used during the Nazi occupation to ship out the “death trains” carrying Jews to the concentration camps. Over 55,000 thousand Jews of Thessaloniki, members of a thriving community in many sectors, were exterminated in the Nazi camps.
The building of the Museum will be funded by the German foreign ministry (10 mln euros) as well as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (10 mln euros).
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