Jewish Resistance In Wartime Greece

Author : Steven B. Bowman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39076002712094

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Jewish Resistance in Wartime Greece by Steven B. Bowman Pdf

This is the first systematic study of the Jews in the Greek resistance based on archival research and personal interviews. It covers Jews in various aspects of resistance in Greece and other concentration camps. The book is a contribution to the overall story of Greek resistance against the Nazi occupiers and provides hitherto unknown stories of their contributions to that fight. Based on interviews and archival research Bowman has assembled a preliminary list of over 650 individuals who fought or served with the Greek Resistance forces. These include andartes and andartissas, interpreters, recruiters, doctors, spies, nurses, organizers, and a number of non Greek Jews who volunteered or were trapped in Greece during the war years. While the murder of nearly 90% of Greek Jews by the Nazis has begun to enter the holocaust story, the participation of Greek Jews in the war against the Nazis is virtually unknown. Greek Jews actively fought in the war against the Italian and German invaders. Veterans and young Jewish males and females went to the mountains to fight or serve in various ways in the andartiko among the several Greek Resistance movements. Other Jews remained in urban areas where they joined different Resistance cells whether as active saboteurs or in leadership roles. A number of Jews appear on the payrolls of Force 133. Additionally Greek Jews participated in the Sonderkommando revolt in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in October 1944 while others fought in the Warsaw revolt from August to October 1944.

Author : Steven B. Bowman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0804772495

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The Agony of Greek Jews, 1940–1945 by Steven B. Bowman Pdf

The Agony of Greek Jews tells the story of modern Greek Jewry as it came under the control of the Kingdom of Greece during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In particular, it deals with the vicissitudes of those Jews who held Greek citizenship during the interwar and wartime periods. Individual chapters address the participation of Greek and Palestinian Jews in the 1941 fighting with Italy and Germany, the roles of Jews in the Greek Resistance, aid, and rescue attempts, and the problems faced by Jews who returned from the camps and the mountains in the aftermath of the German retreat. Bowman focuses on the fate of one minority group of Greek citizens during the war and explores various aspects of its relations with the conquerors, the conquered, and concerned bystanders. His book contains new archival material and interviews with survivors. It supersedes much of the general literature on the subject of Greek Jewry.

Author : Michael Matsas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Greece
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070775981

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The Illusion of Safety by Michael Matsas Pdf

The book contains Michael Matsas's personal record of his one teenage year with villagers of Psilovrahos during the second world war, and a young boy's experience with the Andartes who fought their nation's enemies.

Author : Giorgos Antoniou,A. Dirk Moses
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108474672

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The Holocaust in Greece by Giorgos Antoniou,A. Dirk Moses Pdf

This new account of the Holocaust in Greece elaborates on the involvement of Christian society in the persecution of Jews.

Author : Miriam Novitch
Publisher : Hyperion Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : NWU:35556022770010

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The Passage of the Barbarians by Miriam Novitch Pdf

Author : Alexander Kitroeff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073154218

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War-time Jews by Alexander Kitroeff Pdf

Pp. 9-40, "Approaches to the Study of the Holocaust in the Balkans, " discuss Holocaust history and historiography in the Balkans; pp. 41-47 contain a select bibliography (pp. 41-47). Pp. 49-72, "Greek War-Time Attitudes towards the Jews in Athens, " appeared as an article in "Forum on the Jewish People, Zionism and Israel" 60 (1987). Pp. 73-120, "Documents: The Jews in Greece, 1941-1944, Eyewitness Accounts, " appeared in the "Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora" (1986).

Author : Patrick Henry
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813225890

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Jewish Resistance Against the Nazis by Patrick Henry Pdf

This volume puts to rest the myth that the Jews went passively to the slaughter like sheep. Indeed Jews resisted in every Nazi-occupied country - in the forests, the ghettos, and the concentration camps.The essays presented here consider Jewish resistance to be resistance by Jewish persons in specifically Jewish groups, or by Jewish persons working within non-Jewish organizations. Resistance could be armed revolt; flight; the rescue of targeted individuals by concealment in non-Jewish homes, farms, and institutions; or by the smuggling of Jews into countries where Jews were not objects of Nazi persecution. Other forms of resistance include every act that Jewish people carried out to fight against the dehumanizing agenda of the Nazis - acts such as smuggling food, clothing, and medicine into the ghettos, putting on plays, reading poetry, organizing orchestras and art exhibits, forming schools, leaving diaries, and praying. These attempts to remain physically, intellectually, culturally, morally, and theologically alive constituted resistance to Nazi oppression, which was designed to demolish individuals, destroy their soul, and obliterate their desire to live.

Author : Michael Matsas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578877074

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The Illusion of Safety by Michael Matsas Pdf

The Illusion of Safety chronicles the little known history of the Holocaust in Greece. Through a collection of personal memoirs of survivors and resistance fighters and wartime reports form the U.S. State Department and Great Britain, Michael Matsas recounts the tragic loss of Greek Jewry. Late in WWII, while the Allied governments knew about Hitler's "Final Solution" and had the means to disseminate information in Greece, the Greek Jews were kept uninformed of the death camps and lulled into complacency,. 87% of this historic community was destroyed. In addition, the author recounts his own survival story, as a boy of 13, of his year in a mountain village with his parents and sister, the villagers, and the partisans who saved them.

Author : Michael A. Grodin, M.D.
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782384182

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Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust by Michael A. Grodin, M.D. Pdf

Faced with infectious diseases, starvation, lack of medicines, lack of clean water, and safe sewage, Jewish physicians practiced medicine under severe conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust. Despite the odds against them, physicians managed to supply public health education, enforce hygiene protocols, inspect buildings and latrines, enact quarantine, and perform triage. Many gave their lives to help fellow prisoners. Based on archival materials and featuring memoirs of Holocaust survivors, this volume offers a rich array of both tragic and inspiring studies of the sanctification of life as practiced by Jewish medical professionals. More than simply a medical story, these histories represent the finest exemplification of a humanist moral imperative during a dark hour of recent history.

Author : Mark Mazower
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300089236

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Inside Hitler's Greece by Mark Mazower Pdf

Archival materials and first-hand accounts create an insightful study of the impact of the Nazi occupation of Greece on the lives, psyches, and values of ordinary people.

Author : David Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0755603664

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Greece, the Decade of War by David Brewer Pdf

"During the 1940s Greece was torn apart twice, first by World War II and second by Civil War. Beginning in 1941, the occupation of Greece by Germany was intensely brutal. Children starved on the streets of Athens. The Jewish population was decimated in the Holocaust. Heroic acts of resistance -- performed in concert with the SOE -- were met with vicious reprisals. When Greece was finally freed from Nazi rule in 1944, the fractured and embittered nation became engulfed in civil war, as conflict flared between the British and American-sponsored government and communist-led rebels."--Jacket flap.

Author : Mark Mazower
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0691058423

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After the War was Over by Mark Mazower Pdf

This volume makes available some of the most exciting research currently underway into Greek society after Liberation. Together, its essays map a new social history of Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which the country grappled--bloodily--with foreign occupation and intense civil conflict. Extending innovative historical approaches to Greece, the contributors explore how war and civil war affected the family, the law, and the state. They examine how people led their lives, as communities and individuals, at a time of political polarization in a country on the front line of the Cold War's division of Europe. And they advance the ongoing reassessment of what happened in postwar Europe by including regional and village histories and by examining long-running issues of nationalism and ethnicity. Previously neglected subjects--from children and women in the resistance and in prisons to the state use of pageantry--yield fresh insights. By focusing on episodes such as the problems of Jewish survivors in Salonika, memories of the Bulgarian occupation of northern Greece, and the controversial arrest of a war criminal, these scholars begin to answer persistent questions about war and its repercussions. How do people respond to repression? How deep are ethnic divisions? Which forms of power emerge under a weakened state? When forced to choose, will parents sacrifice family or ideology? How do ordinary people surmount wartime grievances to live together? In addition to the editor, the contributors are Eleni Haidia, Procopis Papastratis, Polymeris Voglis, Mando Dalianis, Tassoula Vervenioti, Riki van Boeschoten, John Sakkas, Lee Sarafis, Stathis N. Kalyvas, Anastasia Karakasidou, Bea Lefkowicz, Xanthippi Kotzageorgi-Zymari, Tassos Hadjianastassiou, and Susanne-Sophia Spiliotis.

Author : Giorgos Antoniou,A. Dirk Moses
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108679954

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The Holocaust in Greece by Giorgos Antoniou,A. Dirk Moses Pdf

For the sizeable Jewish community living in Greece during the 1940s, German occupation of Greece posed a distinct threat. The Nazis and their collaborators murdered around ninety percent of the Jewish population through the course of the war. This new account presents cutting edge research on four elements of the Holocaust in Greece: the level of antisemitism and question of collaboration; the fate of Jewish property before, during, and after their deportation; how the few surviving Jews were treated following their return to Greece, especially in terms of justice and restitution; and the ways in which Jewish communities rebuilt themselves both in Greece and abroad. Taken together, these elements point to who was to blame for the disaster that befell Jewish communities in Greece, and show that the occupation authorities alone could not have carried out these actions to such magnitude without the active participation of Greek Christians.

Author : Yolanda Avram Willis
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524601782

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A Hidden Child in Greece by Yolanda Avram Willis Pdf

“Your story deserves to be widely heard.” —Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize–winning author and Holocaust survivor ---------------------------------------------------------------- Six-year-old Yolanda Avram is rescued by righteous strangers during the Holocaust in Greece. This is her story of courage and survival in the context of dozens of other rescues and shows Jews saving themselves and others in audacious and often heroic ways. Her story is uplifting and focuses on those flickers of light in the vast darkness of evil, known in Greece as the Persecution. This little-known saga of the common folk outwitting the Third Reich is a powerful and important story, told simply and movingly in cinematic episodes. The book is incandescent with empathy and gratitude. “What a powerful and moving story it is.” —Sir Martin Gilbert, official biographer of Winston Churchill, knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, and author of eighty-eight historical books “A Hidden Child in Greece is a monumental story that documents her family’s miraculous survival in a unique and moving way. It gives life to the principle of human dignity and courage as a universal precept . . . this book is a true light unto the nations.” —Yaffa Eliach, author and creator of the first university-level Holocaust curriculum and the Tower of Life, a 1,500-photograph permanent display at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC “Willis is Anne Frank, if Anne Frank had lived.” —Diana Hume George, author and educator “For me, the heart of this book is the family story—the real power lays in the intimate story you are able to describe very simply and movingly.” —Mark Mazower, director, modern European history, Columbia University

Author : Pothiti Hantzaroula
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429018978

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Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Greece by Pothiti Hantzaroula Pdf

A historical investigation of children’s memory of the Holocaust in Greece illustrates that age, generation and geographical background shaped postwar Jewish identities. The examination of children’s narratives deposited in the era of digital archives enables an understanding of the age-specific construction of the memory of genocide, which shakes established assumptions about the memory of the Holocaust. In the context of a global Holocaust memory established through testimony archives, the present research constructs a genealogy of the testimonial culture in Greece by framing the rich source of written and oral testimonies in the political discourses and public memory of the aftermath of the Second World War. The testimonies of former hidden children and child survivors of concentration camps illuminate the questions that haunted postwar attempts to reconstruct communities, related to the specific evolution of genocide in Greece and to the rising anti-Semitism of postwar Greece. As an oral history of child survivors of the Holocaust, the book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of the history of childhood, Jewish studies, memory studies and Holocaust and genocide studies.