Beschreibung:
Constructing a genealogy of testimonies by former hidden children and child survivors of concentration camps, this book illuminates 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.
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