Jewish Refugees in the Balkans, 1933-1945
By (author) Bojan Aleksov
Hardback (Published)
(August 2023)
ISBN: 9783506791740
6.1 x 9.25 inches
Price: $125.00
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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.
Bojan Aleksov is an Associate Professor of South-East European History at the University College London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
- By (author) Bojan Aleksov
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