The Kalamata Diary: Greece, War, and Emigration

Eduardo Faingold

doi:10.5771/9780739144183

Summary

From October 28, 1940 until February of 1947, Sotiria Salivaras provided a unique eye-witness account of life in Kalamata, Greece before, during, and after World War II through her meticulous diary entries. In The Kalamata Diary: Greece, War and Emigration, Eduardo D. Faingold carefully analyzes and contextualizes the major events in modern Greek history about which Salivaras writes in her diary. He examines the expulsion of the Greek minority from Turkey in the aftermath of World War I, as well as the occupation of Greece by the Axis powers during World War II and the Greek civil war. Following Salivaras from her teenage years in Greece to her adult life in Argentina, Faingold also explores immigration patterns from Greece to Argentina and Latin America. Drawing from extensive tape-recorded interviews with Salivaras and her sons, Faingold offers a glimpse into Salivaras's life long after she ceased maintaining her diary.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2009
Copyright Year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-2890-9
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-4418-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 190
Product Type: Monograph

1. CONTENTS No access
2. PREFACE No access
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
1. Chapter 01: WAR No access
2. Chapter 02: EMIGRATION No access
1. OCTOBER 1940 No access
2. NOVEMBER 1940 No access
3. DECEMBER 1940 No access
4. JANUARY 1941 No access
5. Photos No access
6. FEBRUARY 1941 No access
7. MARCH 1941 No access
8. APRIL 1941 No access
9. DATES OF HEROIC ACHIEVEMENTS No access
10. LEAVING GREECE No access
11. ON THE BEAUTIES OF ATHENS No access
12. FROM ATHENS TO ROME No access
13. IN BEAUTIFUL SWITZERLAND No access
14. FROM SWITZERLAND TO BELGIUM No access
15. MY IMPRESSIONS OF MY FATHER No access
APPENDIX: Facsimile Sample from the Diary No access Pages 171 - 176
REFERENCES No access Pages 177 - 178
INDEX No access Pages 179 - 188
ABOUT THE AUTHOR No access Pages 189 - 190