Jewish resistance in wartime Greece /
Steven Bowman, University of Cincinnati.
- London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2006.
- xxiv, 136 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [125]-128) and index.
'To the Mountains' -- Kapetan Kitsos: freedom or death -- Kapetanissa Sarika and the Euboea portage -- Kapetan Makkabaios: honor regained -- ELAS: warriors and enablers -- Polis politics: EAM in motion -- In Auschwitz: Joseph Varouh -- Afteword: Joseph Matsas and the unsung warriors.
"As a leading authority on the history of the Greek Jews and of the Holocaust, Professor Bowman ... presents impressive new evidence, much of it collected from interviews he conducted himself with Holocaust survivors. ... [H]is new book [is] ... an attempt to establish its historical framework, as well as an opportunity to present sketches of heretofore unknown individual cases of Jews in the ranks of Greek resistance. In this he succeeds admirably. ... Professor Bowman's ongoing research adds significantly to our understanding of a major tuning point in recent Greek history and points the way to what remains to be done. For those who lived through the events he describes, it also revives painful memories of what the entire Greek nation endured in the darkest hours of the Second World War." -- From the foreward by John O. Iatrides.