The “Holocausts” in Greece: victim competition in the context of postwar compensation for Nazi persecution

Králová, Kateřina

doi:10.1080/17504902.2016.1209837

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“…In chronological order, some indicative works: (Plaut 2000;Fleming 2008;Bowman 2009;Apostolou 2010;Molho 2010;Kerem 2012;Mavrogordatos 2012;Varon-Vassard 2013;Pinhas 2014;Kavala 2015;Droumpouki 2016;Králová 2016;Antoniou and Moses 2018;Hantzaroula 2020;Saltiel 2020;Karababas 2024). 9 See note 2 above.…”

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Curatorial Dissonance and Conflictual Aesthetics: Holocaust Memory and Public Humanities in Greek Historiography

Christou

2024

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Despite the increasingly diverse societal landscape in Greece for more than three decades within a context of migration, understandings of its fragile histories are still limited in shaping a sense of belonging that is open to ‘otherness’. While Greek communities have utilised history as a pathway to maintain identity, other parallel histories and understandings do not resonate with ‘Greekness’ for most, such as the case of Greek Jewry. Critical historical perspectives can benefit from tracing ‘re-membering’ as a feminist practice in the reassessment of societal values of inclusivity. Histories of violence and injustice can also include elements of ‘difficult histories’ and must be embraced to seek acknowledgement of these in promoting social change and cultural analysis for public humanities informing curation and curricula. Between eduscapes, art heritage spaces, an entry into contested and conflictual histories can expand a sense of belonging and the way we imagine our own connected histories with communities, place and nation. Greek Jews do not constitute a strong part of historical memory for Greeks in their past and present; in contrast to what is perceived as ‘official’ history, theirs is quite marginal. As a result, contemporary Greeks, from everyday life to academia, do not have a holistic understanding in relation to the identities of Jews in Greece, their culture or the Holocaust. Given the emergence of a new wave of artistic activism in recent years in response to the ever-increasing dominance of authoritarian neoliberalism, along with activist practices in the art field as undercurrents of resistance, in this intervention I bring together bodies of works to create a dialogic reflection with historical, artistic and feminist sources. In turn, the discussion then explores the spatiotemporal contestations of the historical geographies of Holocaust monuments in Greece. While interrogating historical amnesia, I endeavour to provide a space to engage with ‘difficult histories’ in their aesthetic context as a heritage of healing and social justice.

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Curatorial Dissonance and Conflictual Aesthetics: Holocaust Memory and Public Humanities in Greek Historiography

Christou

2024

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“…While significantly more attention has been focused on the Holocaust in Greece over the past two decades (Droumpouki 2013(Droumpouki , 2016Molho 2016;Apostolou 2018;Lewkowicz 2006;Králová 2017), the HMG project has yet to be subjected to wider scholarly or public debate. Such an omission is not new, as demonstrated by historians and memory scholars, sometimes even in comparative studies (Himka and Michlic 2013;Makhotina et al 2015, most recently, e.g., Radonić 2021.…”

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“…With the absence of Jews, traditional antisemitism was often masked by a pretended oblivion. Charges of omission, substitution, or nationalistic accommodation could be answered by using national history as an explanatory or even apologetic framework (typically the Greek Civil War for Greece, 1946–1949) and appropriating the term Holocaust ( olokautoma ) as a specifically Greek word (Goschler 2015, 164–166; Králová 2017, 149–175; Varon-Vassard 2018).…”

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The Holocaust Museum of Greece, Thessaloniki: In Whose Memory?

Karasová

Králová²

2022

Nationalities Papers

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This article explores the political and discursive framing of the emerging project Holocaust Museum of Greece (HMG) based in Thessaloniki (announced in 2013). As an “in situ” Holocaust museum, the HMG could represent an important step toward recognizing Jewish suffering in a country where—compared with the rest of Europe—unprecedentedly high levels of antisemitic attitudes have been recorded over the past decade. Supported by a qualitative media analysis and supplemented with data from our online survey, we explore how HMG stakeholders and potential local visitors reflect on the project. Occurring amid contemporary endeavors in Holocaust commemoration and Greek-German reconciliation, we connect it with their persistence in combating far-right tendencies and antisemitism. Specifically, we investigate whose memory HMG stakeholders aim to display, how they reflect on dominant Greek historical narratives and whether they express a clear memory commitment and a genuine effort to produce a more integrated historical interpretation of the Holocaust in Greece.

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Being a Holocaust Survivor in Greece: Narratives of the Postwar Period, 1944–1953

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The Holocaust in Greece

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The “Holocausts” in Greece: victim competition in the context of postwar compensation for Nazi persecution

Cited by 4 publications

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Curatorial Dissonance and Conflictual Aesthetics: Holocaust Memory and Public Humanities in Greek Historiography

Curatorial Dissonance and Conflictual Aesthetics: Holocaust Memory and Public Humanities in Greek Historiography

The Holocaust Museum of Greece, Thessaloniki: In Whose Memory?

Being a Holocaust Survivor in Greece: Narratives of the Postwar Period, 1944–1953

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