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SUMMARY:"Freedom and Death: The Holocaust and Greek Jewry"
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 Presenter: Steven B. Bowman, Department of History, 
 University of Cincinnati \n
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 While the 
 Shoah destroyed 90% of Greek Jewry, including 
 Salonika, the metropolis of Balkan Jewry, the 
 Sephardim of Northern Greece and the Romaniots 
 of Southern and Western Greece nonetheless 
 contributed their part in the war against the 
 Axis. Jews fought in the mountains and served 
 in numerous facets of the Greek Resistance. 
 In the summer of 1944 they were a central 
 factor in the Birkenau uprising of the Sonderkommando 
 and also participated in the Warsaw 
 uprising that lasted through the autumn. Bowman 
 will also discuss the origin of the phrase 
 "[Not] as sheep to slaughter" and its WWII ramifications. 
 Co-sponsored by James Madison College, 
 Peace and Justice Studies, and the Center 
 for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.\n
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 Price: Free and open to the public.\n
 Sponsor: Jewish Studies\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://events.msu.edu/jewishstudies/\n
 Contact name: Jewish Studies\n
 Contact phone: (517) 432-3493\n
 Contact email: jewishst@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:James Madison College Library, 322 South Case Hall
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