ISBN:
9783657791743
,
3657791744
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XLII, 389 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2023
Series Statement:
Balkan studies library volume 34
Series Statement:
Balkan studies library
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Aleksov, Bojan Jewish refugees in the Balkans, 1933-1945
Keywords:
20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.)
;
20th century
;
Germany History
;
History
;
Politics and government
;
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
;
European history
;
Europäische Geschichte
;
HISTORY / Europe / General
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HISTORY / Holocaust
;
HISTORY / Jewish
;
Holocaust
;
Social & cultural history
;
Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
;
The Holocaust
;
Europa
;
Europe
;
Balkanhalbinsel
;
Juden
;
Flüchtling
;
Geschichte 1933-1945
Abstract:
The Balkans provided the escape route for tens of thousands of German Jews, and remained a place of refuge until the Nazis brutally shut it off with the mass murder of Jewish refugees on the so-called Kladovo transport starting in September 1941, which can be considered as the beginning of the Holocaust in Europe. Responding to publications about the Western European and American exile experience of the Jews after 1933, this book offers comparative insights into the less trodden paths of the persecuted, illuminating the cultural and political context of the Balkan host countries, the response of local Jewish communities, and the reactions of common people and assorted criminals. The Balkans, often marginalised and loathed, emerges in hundreds of personal accounts of survivors gathered here, supplemented by extensive archival research, as a welcoming getaway, where thousands survived thanks to the Italian occupiers, illiterate peasants, and Communist-led Partisan resisters
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: 333-371
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English
DOI:
10.30965/9783657791743
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