Municipal Museum of Kalavryta Holocaust, Kalavrita, Greece
The Municipal Museum of the Kalavritan Holocaust was founded to remember the vicitms of Nazi attorcities. It is housed in the building of the old Elementary School and was designated as a work of art and a historical monument under special state protection. Tts surroundings are designated a historic site.
In this symbolic building the inhabitants of Kalavrita experienced and suffered the brutality of the Nazi atrocities: after being deceitfully gathered there, the families were inhumanely divided, the men over 14 were taken away from their families and the women and children were mercilessly encaged in the school from which they violently managed to break out later.
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