An outdoor double exhibit to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust took place on Vassilissis Olgas avenue, near the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, on Friday, ANA reports.
The event showcasing work by artist Artemis Alcalay and family pictures from the Jewish Museum of Greece was addressed briefly by Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis and Jewish Museum President Makis Matsas.
Billboards lining the pedestrian section of the street display on one side photographs from the daily life of Greek Jews before and during World War II, and on the other photographs of tapestries by Alcalay, who expresses the sense of home and family, and their loss.
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