The city has been hosting the Holocaust Memorial since 1997. It is a work of Nandor Glid completed by his son Daniel, creators of other similar monuments in Belgrade, Dachau and Yad Vasem in Jerusalem. In the sketch, the monument comes to life, accepts the Nazi attack that desecrated its body, bends and tilts, but resists. It struggles to stand up and lift the weight of the memory we loaded on its shoulders. The bodies are entangled in the shape of the lamp, they burn, they bleed. They rediscover the original connection with the extermination of the Jews of Thessaloniki in 1942. Some monuments are living organisms. They become subject to assault, claim, vandalism. Invisible or unwanted, exiled or indifferent, they come back to remind us of the measure of our endurance in the memory with which we find it difficult to reconcile. [Stavros Kioutsioukis, Swastika in memory Thessaloniki December 2018. Unidentified persons desecrate once more the Holocaust Memorial in Eleftheria Square, in the centre of the city. The perpetrators spray a swastika on the memorial and leave undisturbed] [Sketch from the exhibition "X them out. The Black Map of Racist Violence at MOMus - Museum of Contemporary Art]