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Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941–46

Author: Kateřina Králová

Documents the lives of Greek Jews who returned after surviving persecution, combat, and exile during World War II.

During World War II the Jews of Greece went into hiding, survived as far-fung refugees, fought as partisans, or were deported to Nazi death camps from which few returned. Though they wanted more than anything to return home, those who did faced isolation, anguish, deprivation, and hostility in the midst of the Greek Civil War. Their stories, which rarely feature in histories of the Holocaust, raise important questions about the aftermath of the war across Europe. Based on exhaustive archival research, and new testimonies and interviews with Holocaust survivors across several continents, this book brings new understanding of the genocide.

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Author:

Kateřina Králová is a professor in Contemporary History at the Balkan, Eurasian and Central European Studies Department of the Institute of International Studies at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Her publications include Stegnosan ta dakrya mas: Ellines prosfyges stin Tsechoslovakia (Our tears dried up: Greek refugees in Czechoslovakia) and Das Vermächtnis der Besatzung:  Deutsch-griechische Beziehungen seit 1940 (The legacy of the occupation: German-Greek relations since 1940)