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More bodies of executed civil war-era prisoners uncovered under Greek city park
- On June 7, 2025, workers uncovered unmarked graves containing 14 bodies beneath a municipal park near Thessaloniki, Greece.
- The excavation followed earlier 2025 discoveries of 33 side-by-side bodies believed to be prisoners executed during or shortly after Greece’s 1946-49 Civil War.
- Supervising engineer Haris Charismiadis confirmed many victims had bullet wounds to the head and stated more graves likely remain beneath nearby streets.
- Items found with the remains included a woman’s shoe, a handbag, and a ring, offering insight into victims’ interrupted lives as families seek DNA identification.
- Local officials pledged to continue searches aiming to locate all Civil War victims buried in the area who were denied traditional burial honors.
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More Unmarked Graves From Greece's Civil War Era Uncovered in Thessaloniki
In March, another cluster of unmarked burial bits was excavated in the Neapolis-Sykies district of Thessaloniki, also belonging to executed civil war prisoners. Credit: AMNA Another series of unmarked graves containing 14 executed individuals from Greece’s civil war era, have been uncovered under a park in a suburb of Thessaloniki, in northern Greece, local officials said Saturday The bodies, according to historians, belong to prisoners who were…
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More bodies of executed civil war-era prisoners uncovered under Greek city park
Local officials say another series of unmarked graves — this one containing 14 individuals — has been dug up in a park in the suburb of Neapolis-Sykies, near the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.
During park renovations, workers found 14 executed Greek Civil War victims in unmarked graves.
Another series of unmarked tombs, this time containing 14 individuals from the Greek civil war era, have been unearthed in a park in a suburb near the city of Thessaloniki, in the north of the country, local officials said on Saturday.
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