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The Illusion of Safety: The Story of the Greek Jews During the Second World War

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2000

In 1941 the Germans shot Simon Dubnow, the distinguished Jewish historian.

As Dubnow was being le... more In 1941 the Germans shot Simon Dubnow, the distinguished Jewish historian. As Dubnow was being led off to his death he said 'shraibt, yiden, shraibt' ('write, Jews, write').

Dubnow wanted the genocide of European Jews, the Holocaust, to be recorded so that it could not be forgotten.

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Historians of modern Greece have notably failed to live up to Dubnow's injunction. Although just 1% of Greece's pre-war population, around one in six of the Greeks who died during the war was a Greek Jew. Barely 15% of Greek Jews survived.

Until now there has only been one complete study of the Holocaust in Greece, Michael Molho and Joseph Nehama's In Memoriam: Hommage aux Victims Juives des Nazis en Grece