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

Author: Dr. Michael Matsas

The Illusion of Safety chronicles the little-known history of the Holocaust in Greece. Through a collection of personal memoirs of survivors and resistance fighters and wartime reports from the US State Department and Great Britain, Michael Matsas recounts the tragic loss of Greek Jewry. Late in World War II, while the Allied governments knew about Hitler's "Final Solution" and had the means to disseminate information in Greece, the Greek Jews were kept uninformed of the death camps and lulled into complacency. Eighty-seven percent of this historic community was destroyed. In addition, the author recounts his own survival story as a boy of 13 and his year in a mountain village with his parents and sister, the villagers, and the partisans who saved them.

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482 pages