Photos of Volos city, Greece in the early 20th Century from the invaluable archive of Konstantinos Z
Photos of Volos city, Greece in the early 20th Century from the invaluable archive of Konstantinos ZimerisVolos, Iasonos Street (Jason’s), 1938. It remains one of the central veins of the city although the majority of these buildings collapsed due to a big earthquake 20 years later. Fishing boat in the harbour, October 1935.Medical staff and patients, Achillopoulion Public Hospital, 1930s.High school girl dressed for Carnival, June 1928.Fridge manufactured in the Electric Company of Volos, March 1937.School play, 1930.Woman, interwar period.Actress of Kyriakou troupe, April 1934. Under the cut, very rare photo from the Nazi Occupation of Greece. Trigger warnings: death, execution, graphic, violence, morbid.The murder of Sofika and Loukia Topali and their maid Filitsa Kalavrou by the Nazi Germans and their collaborators, 7/7/1944. Location: Lehónia, Mount Pelion - a village close to Volos. The Topalis, mother and daughter, were wealthy women who actively assisted ELAS, the Greek Resistance Front against the Nazis, mostly by donating huge amounts of money. Their maid Filitsa helped as much as she could too and her husband was a guerilla fighter in the front. They were betrayed to the Nazis by Greek collaborationists. The Nazis tortured them for many weeks and eventually hanged them from a tree in the main square of the village. They left them there and they commandeered their mansion, which they looted and sent gold, jewellery, invaluable paintings and rare documents to Berlin.Photos sourceInfo source -- source link
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