Talking until nightfall : remembering Jewish Salonica, 1941-44 / Isaac Matarasso ; translated and introduced by Pauline Matarasso ; with contributions by Robert Matarasso and François Matarasso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matarasso, Isaac, 1892-1958, author.

Contributor:

Matarasso, Robert, 1927-1982, contributor.

Matarasso, Pauline Maud, translator.

Matarasso, François, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Matarasso, Isaac, 1892-1958.

Matarasso, Isaac.

Matarasso, Robert, 1927-1982.

Matarasso, Robert.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Greece--Thessalonik--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust survivors--Biography.

Holocaust survivors.

Greece.

Thessalonik.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Personal narratives.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2020.

Summary:

When Nazi occupiers arrived in Greece in 1941, it was the beginning of a horror that would reverberate through generations. In the city of Salonica (Thessaloniki), almost 50,000 Jews were sent to Nazi concentration camps during the war, and only 2,000 returned. A Jewish doctor named Isaac Matarasso and his son escaped imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Nazis and joined the resistance. After the city's liberation they returned to rebuild Salonica and, along with the other survivors, to grapple with the near-total destruction of their community. Isaac was a witness to his Jewish community's devastation, and the tangled aftermath of grief, guilt and grace as survivors returned home. Talking Until Nightfall presents his account of the tragedy and his moving tribute to the living and the dead. His story is woven together with his son Robert's memories of being a frightened teenager spared by a twist of fate, with an afterword by his grandson Francois that looks back on the survivors' stories and his family's place in history. This slim, wrenching account of loss, survival, and the strength of the human spirit will captivate readers and ensure the Jews of Salonica are never forgotten.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. An urgent conversation / Pauline Matarasso

A Note on the Texts

II. Early years, late reflections / Isaac Matarasso

The Drawer of the Past

III. ...And yet not all died ... / Isaac Matarasso

A Conversation with Our Dead

Introduction

Phase One Partial Toleration

Phase Two Oppression

Phase Three Dislocation and Destruction

The Last Eight Jews Killed by the Germans in Salonica

The First Account to Reach Salonica

The Second Account

After the Atrocity

All Did Not Die.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781472975881

147297588X

OCLC:

1153010111