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Monument of the Partisan Heroes, Gjirokastra, Albania
Monument of the Partisan Heroes, stone monument depicting 2 women standing heroically with nooses around their neck, Gjirokastra, Albania. The statue pays tribute to 2 teenage girls Bule Naipi and Persefoni Kokedhima who were partisans during WWII providing assistance to the rebel forces in the contryside. Betrayed to the German forces occupying the city they were hanged in 1944. Gjirokastra was settled by the Greek Chaonians, the Romans and Byzantines before becoming an Ottoman city in 1417. Its old town was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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AR9182195
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
5616px × 3744px
Photo Credit
Manuel Cohen / Art Resource, NY
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20th century
Albania
ALBANIAN
ART
color
COLOR IMAGE
colour image
DAY
EASTERN EUROPE
Eastern European
EPIRUS
Exterior
FINE ARTS
HERITAGE
HEROINE
History
HORIZONTAL
IMAGE
Martyr
MC
modern
Morning
Noose
Outdoors
OUTSIDE
PARTISAN
Photograph
REBEL
Sculpture
SECOND WORLD WAR
Southern Europe
Southern European
Statue
Women
WORLD WAR 2
World War II
WORLD WAR TWO
WW2