Commonalities and Peculiarities of the Return to Life of Holocaust Survivors in their Home Countries: The Dutch and Greek Cases in Context

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Published: Jun 19, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.14321
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Holocaust survivors Greece Netherlands Memory Historiography
Dan Michman
Yad Vashem and Bar Ilan University
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7496-496X
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This article provides a survey of the main characteristics of the return process of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust to their home countries in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, with the goal to contextualise and compare the return to the Netherlands and Greece.
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Dan Michman, Yad Vashem and Bar Ilan University

Full Prof. (Emeritus)

Department of Jewish History, Bar Ilan University

Head, International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem

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