Homecoming
Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941–1946
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Brandeis University Press
Published:9th Apr '25
£32.00
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Documents the lives of Greek Jews who returned after surviving persecution, combat, and exile during World War II.
Homecoming records the experiences of Greek Jews who returned to their native country after World War II, when many went into hiding, fought in combat, became refugees, or were deported, some to Nazi death camps. Though they wanted more than anything to survive and come home, those who returned to postwar Greece faced isolation, anguish, deprivation, and hostility in the midst of a civil war. Their stories, which rarely feature in discussions of the Holocaust, raise important questions about its aftermath across Europe. Based on exhaustive archival research and new interviews with Holocaust survivors across several continents, Kateřina Králová’s new book adds to our understanding of the genocide and its impact.
“Homecoming merits recognition for its meticulous attention to source material. . . . The book’s focus on gender and social aspects is particularly noteworthy. . . . Králová frequently demonstrates her ability to understand both the individual memory work in the context of personal testimonies and the importance of the collective mnemonic landscape.” * Comparative Southeast European Studies *
“A moving account of an important coda to the Holocaust in Greece: the difficult return of the very few Greek Jewish survivors to their homeland. More than half of those who returned stayed only briefly. This book tells us why and shows what Greece—and its Jews—have lost as a result.” -- K. E. Fleming, author of “Greece: A Jewish History”
“With wisdom and elegance, Králová’s Homecoming explores the wartime and immediate post-wartime experience of Greek Jewish survivors, resisters, and the hidden and displaced as they returned home and struggled to confront shattering post-war realities. Homecoming is a feat of painstaking research and a great contribution to Greek, Jewish, and Holocaust histories.” -- Sarah Abrevaya Stein, author of “Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century”
ISBN: 9781684582570
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 32mm
Weight: 481g
373 pages