Between Absence and Affirmation: Papers from the 23rd Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Extermination Sites

Sandra Franz; Jozef Hyrja; Alexios Ntetorakis Exarchou; Sylwia Papier; Nick Warmuth; Hannah Wilson

doi:10.5771/9783748953876

Summary

The 23rd workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Extermination Sites took place in Thessaloniki. Before the Second World War Thessaloniki was home to the largest Jewish community in Greece, more than 50.000 Jewish inhabitants in 1941, at the time of the German occupation. In February 1943 German authorities concentrated local Jews in ghettos. Between March and August more than 45.000 of them were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, most of whom were gassed on arrival. From the pre-war Jewish community less than 2.000 survived the Holocaust. Despite the significant impact this played in the history of this part of Greece, it was mostly forgotten and hardly represented, both in Greece itself as well as in international studies. The absence of memorialization and the tremendous loss of the Jewish community, as well as the recent interest in commemoration, which serves as affirmation for the identity of the Jewish inhabitants of Thessaloniki, connect the location to the topic of the workshop. The papers published in this volume look at this gap in Holocaust history both with an emphasis on Greece as well as further blanks in current research.

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Edition: 1/2025
Copyright Year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-3-86331-772-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-5387-6
Publisher: Metropol Verlag, Berlin
Language: English
Pages: 192
Product Type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 2 - 6
Introduction No access Pages 7 - 30
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Tarnow Remembers its Lost Jews. Special Contribution by a Child Survivor of the Holocaust No access Pages 31 - 58
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Sensory Ecosystems of Concentration and Annihilation Sites: Jasenovac and Staro Sajmište No access Pages 59 - 72
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A Place of Intertwined Histories: Kamp Vught as an Example for the Aftermath of the German Occupation and the Second World War in the Netherlands No access Pages 73 - 102
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Repressed, Dismissed, Forgotten: A Case Study on the Tensions between History and Memory of the Vöcklabruck Satellite Camp No access Pages 103 - 126
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Mapping the Memory: The Jewish Students of Salonica during WWII and the Holocaust, 1939–1943. A Digital Humanities Project No access Pages 127 - 148
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From Absence to Affirmation: The Educational Work of West German Memorials in the 1980s No access Pages 149 - 168
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Seeking the ‘Other’ Jews: History, Fiction and Postmemory in Elena Chouzouri’s novel Uncle Abraham Always Stays Here (2016) No access Pages 169 - 186
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Authors No access Pages 187 - 189
Editors No access Pages 190 - 192