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Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Greece: Memory, Testimony and Subjectivity book cover

1st Edition

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

By Pothiti Hantzaroula Copyright 2021
278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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