Nea Kerdylia is a village in the municipality of Amphipolis. It is located on the national road Thessaloniki - Alexandroupolis and is 50 km away from Nigrita, 70 km from Serres. The village is named after Mount Kerdylion, which is part of the Kerdylion mountain range.
At the October 17th of 1941 the soldiers of the Wehrmacht gathered the male inhabitants between 16 and 60 years in positions Alonia and Koutres. Women and children first gathered in schools and then, after they had removed the men, allowed to gather some of their belongings and leave for Castri and Eukarpia while Germans locked in the Community building 23 elders (who later risked get burned while Germans set the villages on fire.)
At 09.00 in the morning German soldiers execute all the male villagers.
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