The Jewish workers in the port of Thessaloniki (1939-1943)

This article explores the last chapter in the long history of the Jewish port workers in the waterfront of Thessaloniki—the World War II years. The Jewish blue-collar workers and white-collar workers shared a common history, and at the same time, each had a different story to tell on the drama of the war. Their everyday experience in the roles of workers, soldiers, non-combatants, and as Greek civilians reveals the Jewish role in shaping the space of the wartime port during three periods: Greek neutrality (September 1939 to September 1940), the Greek-Italian War (October 1940 to March 1941), and German occupation from April 1941 to March 1943, when the port became an ‘Aryan’ space

Ancient history · Archaeology · Aryan race · German · Greeks · Judaism · Port (circuit theory · Spanish Civil War · World War II · Archaeological Research and Protection · Classics · Engineering · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact