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Remembrance of the Hortiatis’ victims

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Hundreds of people commemorated the victims of the Hortiatis’ massacre in activities that were held in the town of about 4.800 residents situated at a distance of 18 kilometres from Thessaloniki, Greece. Teenagers and elders “March for the Peace” through the town’s streets in torch procession on Friday September 1st. A commemorative prayer and roll of honour of the 149 victims of the massacre committed by the Nazis on September 02, 1944, were held on Saturday September, 02. “They (Nazis) transported the people found in the village’s cafe to the bakery owned by Stefanos Gouramanis. Going to the bakery the barbarism transformed to insanity, as a German (soldier) was playing happy music with his violin” said ex-rector of the University of Macedonia, Ilias Kouskouvelis. Anastasios Gouramanis, 83-years old, was lucky as the day of the massacre went for rural works on the outskirts of the village. “Twenty eight members of my family got murdered in the massacre. I lost my father, my mother, my cousins, 28 persons from my family… I came back the day after of the massacre and I saw the atrocities in the bakery: Mother hugging her child burnt, bones, and other people semi burnt” said Anastasios Gouramanis on camera. In his father’s bakery a large percentage of the massacre victims were burnt alive. Amongst the victims were dozens of children and even entire families. Fifty one of them were under 18 years. More than 300 houses and shops were destroyed and pillaged on that day. It is claimed that this disaster has happened in retaliation for a single Nazi soldier that was shot and killed by rebels in the nearby mountains.

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