Lecture on the Fate of Greek Holocaust Survivors

On April 20, 2017, the Greek historian Rika Benveniste will give a DHC Lecture at Freie Universität Berlin on the fate of Jewish Holocaust survivors in Thessaloniki in Greece. Based on the life story of a woman who survived the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, Benveniste will describe the circumstances of those few survivors who returned to their hometown. In particular, she will refer to the practical support they received from the Jewish community. This DHC Lecture is being organized by the Dahlem Humanities Center in cooperation with the Center for Modern Greek Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. The lecture will be held in English, and admission is free. More than 50,000 Jews lived in Thessaloniki before World War II; 46,000 of them were deported to the extermination camps run by the National Socialists. Most of them were murdered there.