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Author Faingold, Eduardo D

Title The Kalamata diary : Greece, war, and emigration / Eduardo D. Faingold with Juan Buchas
Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 189 pages) : illustrations
Contents pt. 1. War and emigration -- War -- Emigration -- pt. 2. The Kalamata diary -- October 1940 -- November 1940 -- December 1940 -- January 1941 -- February 1941 -- March 1941 -- April 1941 -- Dates of heroic achievements -- Leaving Greece -- On the beauties of Athens -- From Athens to Rome -- In beautiful Switzerland -- From Switzerland to Belgium -- My impressions of my father -- Facsimile sample from the diary
Summary From October 28, 1940 until February of 1947, Sotiria Salivaras provided a unique eye-witness account of life in Kalamata, Greece before, during, and after World War II through her meticulous diary entries. In The Kalamata Diary: Greece, War and Emigration, Eduardo D. Faingold carefully analyzes and contextualizes the major events in modern Greek history about which Salivaras writes in her diary. He examines the expulsion of the Greek minority from Turkey in the aftermath of World War I, as well as the occupation of Greece by the Axis powers during World War II and the Greek civil war. Foll
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Salivaras, Sotiria
Salivaras, Sotiria -- Diaries
Salivaras, Sotiria -- Childhood and youth
Buchas, Jaralambo
Buchas, Juan -- Family
SUBJECT Buchas, Jaralambo fast
Buchas, Juan fast
Salivaras, Sotiria fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Greek
Greeks -- Argentina -- Biography
Immigrants -- Argentina -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Childhood and youth of a person
Families
Greeks
Immigrants
SUBJECT Greece -- History -- 1917-1944 -- Biography
Kalamata (Greece) -- Biography
Subject Argentina
Greece
Greece -- Kalamata
Kalamata
Genre/Form Biographies
Diaries
History
Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
Author Buchas, Juan
LC no. 2009035990
ISBN 9780739144183
0739144189
0739128906
9780739128909
0739128892
9780739128893
1282479318
9781282479319
9786612479311
6612479310