TY  - BOOK
AU  - McElligott,Anthony
TI  - The last transport: the holocaust in the Eastern Aegean 
SN  - 9781474227995
AV  - DS135.G7 M384 2025
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Greece
KW  - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)
KW  - Balkan Peninsula
KW  - Jews
KW  - Persecutions
KW  - Holocauste, 1939-1945
KW  - Grèce
KW  - Égée, Îles de la mer (Grèce et Turquie)
KW  - Balkans
KW  - Juifs
KW  - Persécutions
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - Aegean Islands
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The holocaust in its Aegean context -- Inside the Juderia -- Italians and Jews -- The Germans on Rhodes -- Deportation -- Auschwitz and other camps -- The spoils of deportation -- Return to life -- A 'lost world' remembered and remade
N2  - "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's empire shrank. This last deportation is frequently acknowledged in Holocaust literature but its significance for our understanding of the Nazi genocide of the Jews remains largely overlooked. The timing of the transport, when it was clear to the German military elite that Nazi Germany had lost the war, raises important questions in relation to long-term ideological Nazi goals and the immediate contingency thrown up by war"--Publisher's description
ER  -