Those who Survived
The Resistance, Deportation, and Return of the Jews from Salonika in the 1940s
9789653086586
424 pages
Yad Vashem Publications
Overview
Using a vast wealth of personal testimonies and archival documents, this book traces the trajectories of three groups of people from Salonika who shared a common experience – a group of about twenty young Jews who joined the partisans and fought against the Germans; a group of 100–200 Jews who survived the Nazi concentration and death camps, subsequently becoming DPs in the Feldafing camp, Germany; the last part traces the fate of one family that was deported to Bergen-Belsen.Author Bio
Rika Benveniste was born in Thessaloniki. She studied History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed her doctoral studies in Medieval History at the Université de Sorbonne (Paris I, Panthéon). She is at present Professor of European Medieval History in the Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly, Volos. Her research in Medieval History includes issues of law and society, religiosity and conversion, Jewish history and historiography. She has also researched and published widely on the Holocaust. Her current research focuses on the history of Jews in the postwar years and the emigration of Greek Jews.