ATHENS - AUSCHWITZ

Παρουσίαση

Jewish presence in Greece dates at least to the mention by Strabo in approximately 85 B.C.E. that Jews could be found in all the cities of the eastern Mediterranean (VII 7 4). There may well have been Jews, if not Jewish communities, living in Greek cities as far back as the Babylonian Exile (586 - 530 B.C.E.). After the wars of the Maccabees, between 170 and 161 B.C.E., many Hellenized Jews left Judaea and settled in the new commercial centers, such as Alexandria and Antioch, of the Hellenistic world. From these communities smaller groups moved to some of the coastal Aegean cities such as Ephesus, Smyrna, Thessaloniki, and, according to tradition, Chalkis. Jewish communities also may have been founded on Crete at this time. In any case, by the time of the Apostle Paul there were flourishing Jewish communities in most of the major Greek cities. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction
Historical Outline
The Occupation and the Final Solution
The German Occupation Zone
The Bulgarian Occupation Zone
The Italian Occupation Zone
Preface
Arrest
Haidari
The Tragic Train
Auschwitz
Hospital I
D Camp
Crematoria
Routine
Revolt
Last Days at Auschwitz
Near Breslau
Hospital II
Liberation
Return
Notes
Bibliography