Bojan Aleksov, “Jewish Refugees in the Balkans, 1933-1945”
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on Spelling
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Jewish Exodus to the South 1933–1938
Chapter 2 After the Anschluss
Chapter 3 Annihilation of Jewry in the Balkans
Chapter 4 Ruma: The Town From Which All Jews Perished
Chapter 5 Italian Rescue
Chapter 6 Exile on Korčula
Chapter 7 Rescue in Albania
Chapter 8 Resistance of Jewish Refugees in Yugoslavia
Conclusion: Refugee Survival Guide
Bibliography
Index
Bojan Aleksov is an Associate Professor of South-East European History at the University College London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
BRILL
Series: Balkan Studies Library, Volume: 34
Copyright Year: 2023
https://brill.com/display/title/64459
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