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New Books in Genocide StudiesKaterina Krlov, "Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-46" (Brandeis UP, 2025)Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-46 (Brandeis UP, 2025) records the experiences of Greek Jews who returned to their native country after World War II, when many went into hiding, fought in combat, became refugees, or were deported, some to Nazi death camps. Though they wanted more than anything to survive and come home, those who returned to postwar Greece faced isolation, anguish, deprivation, and hostility in the midst of a civil war. Their stories, which rarely feature in discussions of the Holocaust, raise important questions about its aftermath across Europe. Based on exhaustive archival research and new interviews with Ho...2025-05-091h 18
New Books in Eastern European StudiesKaterina Krlov, "Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-46" (Brandeis UP, 2025)Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-46 (Brandeis UP, 2025) records the experiences of Greek Jews who returned to their native country after World War II, when many went into hiding, fought in combat, became refugees, or were deported, some to Nazi death camps. Though they wanted more than anything to survive and come home, those who returned to postwar Greece faced isolation, anguish, deprivation, and hostility in the midst of a civil war. Their stories, which rarely feature in discussions of the Holocaust, raise important questions about its aftermath across Europe. Based on exhaustive archival research and new interviews with Ho...2025-05-091h 21
New Books in Jewish StudiesKaterina Kralova, "Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-46" (Brandeis UP, 2025)Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-46 (Brandeis UP, 2025) records the experiences of Greek Jews who returned to their native country after World War II, when many went into hiding, fought in combat, became refugees, or were deported, some to Nazi death camps. Though they wanted more than anything to survive and come home, those who returned to postwar Greece faced isolation, anguish, deprivation, and hostility in the midst of a civil war. Their stories, which rarely feature in discussions of the Holocaust, raise important questions about its aftermath across Europe. Based on exhaustive archival research and new interviews with Ho...2025-05-091h 21
Rural Road to HealthDr David Halata & Dr Katerina Javorska - Go Rural CzechiaDr David Halata & Dr Katerina Javorska are rural family doctors form Czechia. Both of them have been involved in an initiative to improve rural healthcare in Czechia called Go Rural. Dr Halata is the chairman of the Working Group for Rural Medicine in the National society for Family medicine and creator of Go Rural. Dr Javorska is a member of the Working Group on Rural Medicine and has been working with students and young doctors in the Hradec Kralova region. Episode summary: 00.50 Dr Halata and Dr Javorska tell us how they became rural family doctors and thei...2024-02-2957 min