Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Greece - Memory, Testimony and Subjectivity

Constructing a genealogy of testimonies by former hidden children and child survivors of concentration camps, this book illuminates 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.

List of contents

Prologue; Introduction; 1. Meaning, Memory and Archive: The Politics of the Creation of Archival Material on the Holocaust; 2. The War Became Real; 3. Trajectories of Escape from the German Persecution of the population of Salonika and Athens; 4. Hidden Children in Volos: Trajectories and Identities; 5. Life and Memory of Concentration Camps: The Bergen Belsen Experience; 6. The Beginning of an Unknown Era: The Role of anti-Semitism in the Construction of Postwar Identities; 7. Remaking the Meaning of Living Entre Mozotros: Postwar Reconstruction of Jewish Communities; 8. Family Legacies: Memory, Postmemory and Transgenerational Haunting; Epilogue: The Legacy of the Holocaust and Beyond; Interview Catalogue; Bibliography

About the author

Pothiti Hantzaroula is Assistant Professor of Historical Anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology and History at the University of the Aegean (Mytilene, Greece). Her fields of research include oral history, the history and historiography of gender and sexuality, the memory and history of the Second World War and the history of emotions.

Summary

Constructing a genealogy of testimonies by former hidden children and child survivors of concentration camps, this book illuminates 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.

Product details

• Authors: Pothiti Hantzaroula
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780367627768
• ISBN: 978-0-367-62776-8
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Routledge Studies in Second World War History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Jewish, HISTORY / Europe / Western, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, Greece, The Holocaust, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Age groups: children, HISTORY / Europe / Greece, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, HISTORY / Russia / General