Monday, March 17, 2025

Katerina Králová Publishes Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941–1946

Katerina Králová published Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941–1946 with Brandeis University Press.

This book documents the experiences of the Jews of Greece who returned home after having been in hiding, combatants, deportees and refugees during World War II. These are stories that rarely feature in our discussions of the Holocaust and that raise important questions about the aftermath of the Holocaust across Europe. Greek Jews wanted more than anything to survive and come back home. Yet their expectations of homecoming could not be met in the reality of postwar Greece where they faced isolation, anguish, deprivation, and hostility in the midst of a civil war. Based on exhaustive archival research and new testimonies and interviews with Holocaust survivors across several continents.