Review of Pothiti Hantzaroula, Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Greece: Memory, Testimony and Subjectivity

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Published: Apr 15, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.30701
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Holocaust survivors children Greece memory Book review
Dana Mihăilescu
University of Bucharest
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7470-7410
Abstract

This article reviews Pothiti Hantzaroula's Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Greece: Memory, Testimony and Subjectivity (Routledge, 2020). It highlights how Hantzaroula’s book  represents a needed and much welcome addition to the study of child survivors of World War II by offering students and scholars of the Holocaust a comprehensive insight into the specifics of Greece, which can serve as a basis for subsequent comparative or kindred assessments in the case of other Southeastern European countries.

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Author Biography
Dana Mihăilescu, University of Bucharest

Dana Mihăilescu is Associate Professor of English and American studies at the University of Bucharest. She is the author of Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890-1930: Struggles for Recognition (2018), as well as articles on Holocaust memory and Eastern European Jewish migration to the United States in journals such as Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Yad Vashem Studies, MELUS, Shofar, American Imago, East European Jewish Affairs, European Review of History, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.

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