LEADER 04268cam a2200517 i 4500001 296216 005 20240724144721.0 008 220703t20222022is a b 001 0deng d 035 (OCoLC)on1345009582 040 J9U |beng |erda |cJ9U |dOCLCO |dACM |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dOCLCO |dLHM 020 9789653086586 020 9653086588 024 7 026800013767 |2danacode 041 1 eng |kger |hgre 043 e-gr---e-gx--- 050 4 DS135.G8 |bB468 2022 090 DS135.G72 |bT47213 2022 049 LHMA 100 1 Benveniste, Rika, |eauthor. 240 10 Autoi pou epezēsan. |lEnglish 245 10 Those who survived : |bthe resistance, deportation, and return of the Jews from Salonika in the 1940s / |cRika Benveniste ; translated from the German by Susan Kennedy. 264 1 Jerusalem : |bYad Vashem, |c[2022] 264 4 |c©2022 300 424 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 546 Translation from German of: Die Überlebenden : Widerstand, Deportation, Rückkehr : Juden aus Thessaloniki in den 1940er Jahren. 500 Original Greek title: Autoi pou epezēsan : antistasē, ektopisē, epistrophē : Thessalonikeis Evraioi stē dekaetia tou 1940. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-412) and index. 520 "Before World War II, there were more than 50,000 Jews in Salonika. More than 46,000 of them were deported to the Nazi death camps, and around 96% of them perished there. Those Who Survived tells the story of some of the few survivors. Their stories are the exception; death was the rule. Using a vast wealth of personal testimonies and archival documents, this book narrates previously unknown stories, reconsidering events from a microhistorical perspective. It traces the trajectories of three groups of people who shared a common experience of persecution. The first part concentrates on a group of about twenty young Jews from Salonika who joined the partisans and fought against the Germans. It explores their decisions, their everyday lives and the battles in the mountains, and life after the liberation. The second part exposes the previously unknown story of a group of 100-200 Jews from Salonika who survived the Nazi concentration and death camps, subsequently becoming DPs in the Feldafing camp, Germany. The book discusses various aspects of their everyday lives in this extraterritorial experience: searching for family members, food, the black market, sociability, love and marriage, Zionism and illegal immigration to Mandatory Palestine, waiting for visas and departure for the U.S. The third and final part traces the fate of one family that was deported to Bergen-Belsen. Using letters, diaries, and testimonies, the narrative sheds light on their lives in the first months of occupation, in Bergen-Belsen, after liberation, upon the return to Salonika, and in the aftermath of the war. In this innovative study, now available for the first time in English, Rika Benveniste confronts official and private archives and testimonies with collective memory and historiography. The fascinating and moving personal stories narrated in the book, together with the author's reflections, will interest historians and the general public alike"--Back cover. 650 0 Jews |zGreece |zThessalonikē |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Jews |zGreece |zThessalonikē |vBiography. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zGreece |zThessalonikē. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zGreece |zThessalonikē |vPersonal narratives. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJewish resistance |zGreece. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJewish resistance |zGreece |vPersonal narratives. 650 0 Jewish refugees |zGermany |zBavaria. 610 20 Feldafing (Displaced persons camp) 650 0 Nazi concentration camp inmates |zGermany. 610 20 Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) 655 7 Personal narratives. |2lcgft 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 700 1 Kennedy, Susan, |etranslator. 710 2 Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah, |eissuing body. 852 0 |bscstacks |hDS135.G72 |iT47213 2022