A moving account of an important coda to the Holocaust in Greece: the difficult return of the very few Greek Jewish survivors to their homeland. More than half of those who returned stayed only briefly. This book tells us why and shows what Greece—and its Jews—have lost as a result.
Katerina Králová
Dr. Katerina Králová is professor in Contemporary History, Balkan, Eurasian and Central European Studies of the Institute of International Studies and former Vice-Dean for International Relations, 2010-2015, at the Faculty of Social Science, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic). While in residence at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Dr. Králová conducted research on her project, “The Jewish Community in Postwar Greece: Between Assimilation and Exclusion.” Her publications include Stegnosan ta dakrya mas. Ellines prosfyges stin Tsechoslovakia [Our tears dried up: Greek refugees in Czechoslovakia] (2015); “Reparationsforderungen: Umfang, Rechtsfragen, politische Rahmenbedingungen,” in Die Krise in Griechenland. Ursprünge, Verlauf, Folgen (2015); “Nemecká kulturní politika pod Akropolí: Nemecký archeologický institut v Athénách [German Cultural Policy under the Acropolis: German Archeological Institute in Athens]” in Nemecké historické ústavy v zahranicí. Nemecká kulturní zahranicní politika (2013); and Sti skia tis Katochis: Oi ellinogermanikes scheseis tin periodo 1941-2010 [In the Shadow of Occupation: Greek-German Relations, 1941-2010] (2013).
