Child survivors of the Holocaust in Greece : memory, testimony and subjectivity / Pothiti Hantzaroula.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hantzaroula, Pothiti, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in Second World War history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust survivors--Greece.

Holocaust survivors.

Jewish children in the Holocaust--Greece.

Jewish children in the Holocaust.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Greece.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Greece.

World War, 1939-1945.

Collective memory--Greece.

Collective memory.

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Atrocities.

Greece--History--Occupation, 1941-1944.

Greece.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 265 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Summary:

"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 globalized 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, Holocaust and genocide studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Meaning, Memory and Archive: The Politics of the Creation of Archival Material on the Holocaust

The War Became Real

Trajectories of Escape from the German Persecution of the population of Salonika and Athens

Hidden Children in Volos: Trajectories and Identities

Life and Memory of Concentration Camps: The Bergen Belsen Experience

The Beginning of an Unknown Era: The Role of anti-Semitism in the Construction of Postwar Identities

Remaking the Meaning of Living Entre Mozotros: Postwar Reconstruction of Jewish Communities

Family Legacies: Memory, Postmemory and Transgenerational Haunting

The Legacy of the Holocaust and Beyond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Hantzaroula, Pothiti. Child survivors of the Holocaust in Greece

ISBN:

9781138579491

1138579491

OCLC:

1178868775

Publisher Number:

99988508700