During the Ottoman rule, Venizelou Street stopped at the contemporary Agiou Mina Street. The current Venizelou Str, widened towards the waterfront, was opened in 1870, immediately after the demolition of the seafront wall, and the square was designed. It was initially called the Wharf Square and then Olympus Square, as it offered a view towards the homonymous mountain. The name (Hürriyet meydanı in turksish) was given to the coastal section of the road by the members of the Young Turks in 1908 who gathered there shouting in favor of equality and freedom. The name was thus given to the square created during the new urban plan of Thessaloniki (1918) between "Hurriyet Meidan'' and the newly opened Ionos Dragoumi Street. The new Eleftherias Square occupied the Tophane Jewish quarter (Artillery) and the land destined for the construction of the Central Post Office. At the square’s southeast corner standsthe Holocaust Memorial created by sculptor Nandor Glid in memory of the Thessaloniki victims, as well as other original works by the same artist.