Documents the first-hand experiences in the Holocaust of the
Sephardim from Greece, the Balkans, North Africa, Libya, Cos, and
Rhodes The Sephardim suffered devastation during the Holocaust, but
this facet of history is poorly documented. What literature exists
on the Sephardim in the Holocaust focuses on specific countries,
such as Yugoslavia and Greece, or on specific cities, such as
Salonika, and many of these works are not available in English. The
Sephardim in the Holocaust: A Forgotten People embraces the
Sephardim of all the countries shattered by the Holocaust and pays
tribute to the memory of the more than 160,000 Sephardim who
perished. Isaac Jack LEvy and Rosemary LEvy Zumwalt draw on a
wealth of archival sources, family history (Isaac and his family
were expelled from Rhodes in 1938), and more than one hundred fifty
interviews conducted with survivors during research trips to
Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands,
the former Yugoslavia, and the United States. LEvy follows the
Sephardim from Athens, Corfu, Cos, Macedonia, Rhodes, Salonika, and
the former Yugoslavia to Auschwitz. The authors chronicle the
interminable cruelty of the camps, from the initial selections to
the grisly work of the Sonderkommandos inside the crematoria,
detailing the distinctive challenges the Sephardim faced, with
their differences in language, physical appearance, and
pronunciation of Hebrew, all of which set them apart from the
Ashkenazim. They document courageous Sephardic revolts, especially
those by Greek Jews, which involved intricate planning,
sequestering of gunpowder, and complex coordination and
communication between Ashkenazi and Sephardic inmates-all done in
the strictest of secrecy. And they follow a number of Sephardic
survivors who took refuge in Albania with the benevolent assistance
of Muslims and Christians who opened their doors to give sanctuary,
and traces the fate of the approximately 430,000 Jews from Morocco,
Algiers, Tunisia, and Libya from 1939 through the end of the war.
The author's intention is to include the Sephardim in the shared
tragedy with the Ashkenazim and others. The result is a much
needed, accessible, and viscerally moving account of the
Sephardim's unique experience of the Holocaust.
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