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New Book on Greek Jews Holocaust

B5F85E8B6D815A28AE912990D842DD69A new narrative on the persecution and the rescue of the Jews in the Third Reich has been released by Kapon Editions. The new book by Karina Lampsa and Iakov Simbi The Rescue, narrates the world’s silence, the resistance in the ghettos and the camps and the Greek Jews during the Occupation years, in 431 pages providing plenty of food for thought.
The book tries to shed light both on the brighter and bitter aspects of the Greek Holocaust citing Greek and international sources. With documents, testimonies, names, references, lists and photographs, the two authors have tried to produce a complete guide of the Greek Jews’ life during the Occupation years in Greece.
The research also reveals the attitude and actions of the local Jewish leaders raising questions, such as: Could Chief Rabbi Koretz have prevented the extinction of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community? Why were the Jews who had gathered in Athens saved? Who organized the rescue operation in the Aegean? The agreements between the British secret services, the Jewish Agency and the National Resistance Front of Greece opened the way for the escape from Euboea.
The only case of massive rescue in Greece took place on the island of Zakynthos, where 275 Jewish residents managed to hide in the villages and escape the Nazi operations thanks to mayor Loukas Karrer, Metropolitan Chrysostomos and the tolerance of the Austrian commander of the island.

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