The Agony of Greek Jews, 1940-1945

Bowman, Steven

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“…In chronological order, some indicative works: (Plaut 2000;Fleming 2008;Bowman 2009;Apostolou 2010;Molho 2010;Kerem 2012;Mavrogordatos 2012;Varon-Vassard 2013;Pinhas 2014;Kavala 2015;Droumpouki 2016;Králová 2016;Antoniou and Moses 2018;Hantzaroula 2020;Saltiel 2020;Karababas 2024). 9 See note 2 above.…”

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Curatorial Dissonance and Conflictual Aesthetics: Holocaust Memory and Public Humanities in Greek Historiography

Christou

2024

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Despite the increasingly diverse societal landscape in Greece for more than three decades within a context of migration, understandings of its fragile histories are still limited in shaping a sense of belonging that is open to ‘otherness’. While Greek communities have utilised history as a pathway to maintain identity, other parallel histories and understandings do not resonate with ‘Greekness’ for most, such as the case of Greek Jewry. Critical historical perspectives can benefit from tracing ‘re-membering’ as a feminist practice in the reassessment of societal values of inclusivity. Histories of violence and injustice can also include elements of ‘difficult histories’ and must be embraced to seek acknowledgement of these in promoting social change and cultural analysis for public humanities informing curation and curricula. Between eduscapes, art heritage spaces, an entry into contested and conflictual histories can expand a sense of belonging and the way we imagine our own connected histories with communities, place and nation. Greek Jews do not constitute a strong part of historical memory for Greeks in their past and present; in contrast to what is perceived as ‘official’ history, theirs is quite marginal. As a result, contemporary Greeks, from everyday life to academia, do not have a holistic understanding in relation to the identities of Jews in Greece, their culture or the Holocaust. Given the emergence of a new wave of artistic activism in recent years in response to the ever-increasing dominance of authoritarian neoliberalism, along with activist practices in the art field as undercurrents of resistance, in this intervention I bring together bodies of works to create a dialogic reflection with historical, artistic and feminist sources. In turn, the discussion then explores the spatiotemporal contestations of the historical geographies of Holocaust monuments in Greece. While interrogating historical amnesia, I endeavour to provide a space to engage with ‘difficult histories’ in their aesthetic context as a heritage of healing and social justice.

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Curatorial Dissonance and Conflictual Aesthetics: Holocaust Memory and Public Humanities in Greek Historiography

Christou

2024

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“…A Greek prisoner...Greek Jew. Molho, 1972;Novitch, 1977;Pinhas, 2006;Bowman, 2009 Michael Molho wrote that Jaworzno was the cemetery of Greek Jews: they died from starvation, exhaustion, and many were shot by the SS. At the end of October 1943 about 1,000 were sent to the crematoria, fifteen days later another group of 250 shared the same fate.…”

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“…Their command of French enabled many Salonikan Jews to move to France in the first three decades of the 20th century; the same, on a smaller scale, happened with Italy, with which the links were old and tight. Hillberg, 1985;Mazower, 1995;Bowman, 2009. One of the peculiarities of the situation of Salonikan Jews during the Holocaust lied with the different treatment of resident Jews with foreign citizenships. According to German sources, there were 852 (511 Spanish, 281 Italian, 39 Turkish, and some Portuguese, Argentinian, etc.)…”

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Without a compass: Salonikan Jews in Nazi Concentration Camps and later

Zezza¹

2021

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During the Holocaust, the largest Sephardi community in the world located in Saloniki was almost completely destroyed. Despite their limited number in comparison with that of Ashkenazi Jews, the Salonikan Jews, initially deported to Auschwitz Birkenau and Bergen Belsen, went through all the hardest experiences and were sent to many camps in occupied Poland, and in Germany. This article explores, using archival documents and the testimonies, the geographical directions of their deportations. It also analyses historical coordinates and the Salonikan Jews’ characteristics which affected their destinations and the itinerary with which they were forced to cope.

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Counterinsurgency as Genocidal Intent: From the Ottoman Christians to the Bosnian Muslims

Travis

2016

The Armenian Genocide Legacy

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The Agony of Greek Jews, 1940-1945

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Curatorial Dissonance and Conflictual Aesthetics: Holocaust Memory and Public Humanities in Greek Historiography

Curatorial Dissonance and Conflictual Aesthetics: Holocaust Memory and Public Humanities in Greek Historiography

Without a compass: Salonikan Jews in Nazi Concentration Camps and later

Counterinsurgency as Genocidal Intent: From the Ottoman Christians to the Bosnian Muslims

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