Katerina Kralova
Biographic Data
| ID | 157724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katerina Kralova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katerina |
| FAMILY NAME | Kralova |
| SIGNATURE | KRALOVA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9475-7933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The slow transformation of the collectivist education of child refugees from Greece in socialist Czechoslovakia
Using a Slow Memory framework, which foregrounds sustained, reflective engagement with the past, this article examines the evolving institutional care provided to child refugees from the Greek Civil War (1946-1949) in socialist Czechoslovakia. Rather than interpreting their experiences primarily through trauma or rupture, the analysis focuses on the long-term everyday realities of life in childcare institutions, recalling both supportive and cons…
Introduction to the special issue: Slowly shifting toward slow memory
This article introduces the special issue Slow Memory Studies , which emerges from the COST Action “Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change.” In a world defined by rapid technological, socio economic, and political shifts, the concept of slow memory offers an alternative analytical framework that foregrounds gradual, often imperceptible transformations shaping everyday life. Rather than centring spectacul…
Examining how students overclaim their English as a foreign language knowledge: A novel use of the overclaiming technique
Nazi Crimes, Max Merten and his Prosecution as Reflected in Greece and beyond
The prosecution of Max Merten (1911–1971), the only Nazi war criminal accused of Holocaust involvement in Greece, coincided not only with the start of the Greek-German negotiations on victim compensation but also with the Eichmann trial. In 1959, the Merten Case provoked a massive public backlash, both because of the gravity of his crimes and because of his impending extradition to West Germany. We argue that in the Cold War atmosphere, when the …
Responding to Mass Atrocities in Southeast Europe: History and Memory of World War II and Its Aftermath in European Perspective. Introduction
This article introduces the complex historical and memory landscape of Southeast Europe in connection with the Second World War and its aftermath. In what ways have responses to mass atrocities in the region been shaped, how have they permeated public discourse, and to what extent have they been reflected in the entangled Balkan history? By analysing occupation, genocide, resistance, collaboration, justice, and memory, this introduction lays the …
The Holocaust Museum of Greece, Thessaloniki: In Whose Memory
This article explores the political and discursive framing of the emerging project Holocaust Museum of Greece (HMG) based in Thessaloniki (announced in 2013). As an “in situ” Holocaust museum, the HMG could represent an important step toward recognizing Jewish suffering in a country where—compared with the rest of Europe—unprecedentedly high levels of antisemitic attitudes have been recorded over the past decade. Supported by a qualitative media …
Beyond the National Museum Paradigm: Troubled Past Vernacular Representations in Central and Southeastern Europe
As nationalist and populist rhetorics have gained momentum in Central and Southeastern Europe, there is an urgency to disentangle the historical narratives and political agendas displayed by national museum paradigms. And yet, equally significant is the urgency to illuminate the strategies and mnemonic devices through which the past is rendered worthy of commemoration, both in those memory cultures that come to life in opposition, or those which …
Identifying the accuracy of and exaggeration in self-reports of ICT knowledge among different groups of students: The use of the overclaiming technique
Developing a Framework for the Examination of Anchoring Vignette Assumptions Using Cognitive Interviews: A Demonstration in the ICT Skills Domain
Self-assessment measures are commonly used in questionnaire surveys. However, one of the problems with self-reports is that they may be prone to differences in scale usage among respondents. The anchoring vignette method addresses this issue. It relies on two assumptions: response consistency and vignette equivalence. Here we aim to develop a framework for the examination of these assumptions using cognitive interviews and demonstrate it in the I…
‘Being traitors’: Post-war Greece in the experience of Jewish partisans
As a result of political developments, silence about Jewish resistance in post-war Greece persisted for decades. In my article, I focus on the post-war fate of Jewish partisans in the context of the Greek Civil War and the emerging East–West conflict. After liberation, many partisans in Greece were stigmatized and even tried as communists. In the 1980s, when Athens shifted towards socialism, Jewish survivors began to speak up regarding their invo…
Introduction – diverse perspectives on Jewish life in Southeast Europe: The Holocaust and beyond
Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize winner, journalist and activist originally from Romania who survived Nazi extermination camps, noted in his speech at the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwit
Das Vermächtnis der Besatzung: Deutsch-griechische Beziehungen seit 1940
The “Holocausts” in Greece: Victim competition in the context of postwar compensation for Nazi persecution
In postwar Greece, reflections on the country’s reconstruction and German compensation for Nazi persecution have been largely overshadowed by the memory of the Greek Civil War (1946–49) followed by strong nationalist and anti-communist policies. In public discourse, however, memories of the Holocaust were recently linked to mass atrocities on the Greek non-Jewish population. Even before the book Ellinika Olokautomata, 1940–1945 [Greek Holocausts,…
In the Shadow of the Nazi Past: Post-war Reconstruction and the Claims of the Jewish Community in Salonika
Faced with vast human and economic losses, the small number of Jews in Greece who had survived the Second World War found themselves shortly afterwards in great need of social and financial assistance simply to survive in the post-war world. Although some humanitarian relief had been provided immediately after the end of the once Italian, Bulgarian and German occupations, the reconstruction of Jewish communities and development of a legal framewo…
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Das Vermächtnis der Besatzung: Deutsch-griechische Beziehungen seit 1940
The “Holocausts” in Greece: Victim competition in the context of postwar compensation for Nazi persecution
In postwar Greece, reflections on the country’s reconstruction and German compensation for Nazi persecution have been largely overshadowed by the memory of the Greek Civil War (1946–49) followed by strong nationalist and anti-communist policies. In public discourse, however, memories of the Holocaust were recently linked to mass atrocities on the Greek non-Jewish population. Even before the book Ellinika Olokautomata, 1940–1945 [Greek Holocausts,…
In the Shadow of the Nazi Past: Post-war Reconstruction and the Claims of the Jewish Community in Salonika
Faced with vast human and economic losses, the small number of Jews in Greece who had survived the Second World War found themselves shortly afterwards in great need of social and financial assistance simply to survive in the post-war world. Although some humanitarian relief had been provided immediately after the end of the once Italian, Bulgarian and German occupations, the reconstruction of Jewish communities and development of a legal framewo…
‘Being traitors’: Post-war Greece in the experience of Jewish partisans
As a result of political developments, silence about Jewish resistance in post-war Greece persisted for decades. In my article, I focus on the post-war fate of Jewish partisans in the context of the Greek Civil War and the emerging East–West conflict. After liberation, many partisans in Greece were stigmatized and even tried as communists. In the 1980s, when Athens shifted towards socialism, Jewish survivors began to speak up regarding their invo…
Introduction – diverse perspectives on Jewish life in Southeast Europe: The Holocaust and beyond
Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize winner, journalist and activist originally from Romania who survived Nazi extermination camps, noted in his speech at the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwit
Identifying the accuracy of and exaggeration in self-reports of ICT knowledge among different groups of students: The use of the overclaiming technique
Developing a Framework for the Examination of Anchoring Vignette Assumptions Using Cognitive Interviews: A Demonstration in the ICT Skills Domain
Self-assessment measures are commonly used in questionnaire surveys. However, one of the problems with self-reports is that they may be prone to differences in scale usage among respondents. The anchoring vignette method addresses this issue. It relies on two assumptions: response consistency and vignette equivalence. Here we aim to develop a framework for the examination of these assumptions using cognitive interviews and demonstrate it in the I…
The Holocaust Museum of Greece, Thessaloniki: In Whose Memory
This article explores the political and discursive framing of the emerging project Holocaust Museum of Greece (HMG) based in Thessaloniki (announced in 2013). As an “in situ” Holocaust museum, the HMG could represent an important step toward recognizing Jewish suffering in a country where—compared with the rest of Europe—unprecedentedly high levels of antisemitic attitudes have been recorded over the past decade. Supported by a qualitative media …
Beyond the National Museum Paradigm: Troubled Past Vernacular Representations in Central and Southeastern Europe
As nationalist and populist rhetorics have gained momentum in Central and Southeastern Europe, there is an urgency to disentangle the historical narratives and political agendas displayed by national museum paradigms. And yet, equally significant is the urgency to illuminate the strategies and mnemonic devices through which the past is rendered worthy of commemoration, both in those memory cultures that come to life in opposition, or those which …
Examining how students overclaim their English as a foreign language knowledge: A novel use of the overclaiming technique
Nazi Crimes, Max Merten and his Prosecution as Reflected in Greece and beyond
The prosecution of Max Merten (1911–1971), the only Nazi war criminal accused of Holocaust involvement in Greece, coincided not only with the start of the Greek-German negotiations on victim compensation but also with the Eichmann trial. In 1959, the Merten Case provoked a massive public backlash, both because of the gravity of his crimes and because of his impending extradition to West Germany. We argue that in the Cold War atmosphere, when the …
Responding to Mass Atrocities in Southeast Europe: History and Memory of World War II and Its Aftermath in European Perspective. Introduction
This article introduces the complex historical and memory landscape of Southeast Europe in connection with the Second World War and its aftermath. In what ways have responses to mass atrocities in the region been shaped, how have they permeated public discourse, and to what extent have they been reflected in the entangled Balkan history? By analysing occupation, genocide, resistance, collaboration, justice, and memory, this introduction lays the …
The slow transformation of the collectivist education of child refugees from Greece in socialist Czechoslovakia
Using a Slow Memory framework, which foregrounds sustained, reflective engagement with the past, this article examines the evolving institutional care provided to child refugees from the Greek Civil War (1946-1949) in socialist Czechoslovakia. Rather than interpreting their experiences primarily through trauma or rupture, the analysis focuses on the long-term everyday realities of life in childcare institutions, recalling both supportive and cons…
Introduction to the special issue: Slowly shifting toward slow memory
This article introduces the special issue Slow Memory Studies , which emerges from the COST Action “Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change.” In a world defined by rapid technological, socio economic, and political shifts, the concept of slow memory offers an alternative analytical framework that foregrounds gradual, often imperceptible transformations shaping everyday life. Rather than centring spectacul…
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