The Last Transport
the holocaust in the eastern aegean
$50.05
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
11 December 2024
Summary
The Last Transport to Auschwitz: A Story of the Holocaust’s End
The deportation of 1,755 Jews from the islands of Rhodes and Cos in July 1944, shortly after the last deportation from Hungary, was the last transport to leave Greece for Auschwitz and brought to a close the last significant phase of the genocide of Europe’s Jews (notwithstanding the death marches). Within six weeks of their deportation, the Germans were retreating from Greece and the Balkans as Hitler’…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474227995 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474227996 |
| Author: | Anthony McElligott, Professor Anthony McElligott |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 11 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 820g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 156mm x 30mm |
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The Last Transport is a masterpiece of scholarship. This meticulously researched and evocative book presents the full story of the Jews of Rhodes before, during, and after World War II. A vital and ground-breaking contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and the end of Sephardi life in the Eastern Aegean. * Aron Rodrigue, Professor of Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University, USA *
About The Author
Anthony McElligott
Anthony McElligott is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His most recent books are Rethinking the Weimar Republic: Authority and Authoritarianism, 1916-1936 (Bloomsbury, 2014) and (editor with Jeffrey Herf) Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust: Altered Contexts and Recent Perspectives (2017). He was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1999 and to the Royal Irish Academy in 2015.
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