Tatiana Liani School of Drama at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 1939, Renato Mordo, the Viennese Jewish artistic director of Deutsches Theater in Prague, arrives with his wife, actress Trude Wessely-Mordo, and his son Peter, in Athens. The forgotten Greek citizenship that his father had retained saved him from the fate of countless other Jewish… Continue reading Performing survival: gender experiences of Liberation in the Mondo Archives
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“Achtung, Gnädiges Fräulein”: Figurations of Female Vulnerability, Humiliation, and Sexual Coercion in Torborg Nedreaas’ Fiction of Nazi-Occupied Norway
Ramatu Musa Université de Lausanne Coercion and complicity are among the two discursive themes that can be found in historic debates about the non-German women who associated with Nazi men during the Second World War. Norway was a fringe theatre of the Second World War; and the 1940-1945 Nazi occupation of the country is an… Continue reading “Achtung, Gnädiges Fräulein”: Figurations of Female Vulnerability, Humiliation, and Sexual Coercion in Torborg Nedreaas’ Fiction of Nazi-Occupied Norway
The Shattered Identity After World War II: Różewicz’s «The Card Index» Between Paralysis and Unfinished Liberation
Andrea Cominetti University of Verona. This paper analyzes the figure of the Protagonist in The Card Index (1960), examining it through the lens of traumatic memory and the complex psychological legacy of the Second World War. The play, which marks Tadeusz Różewicz’s theatrical debut, stands as one of the most significant documents of the impossibility… Continue reading The Shattered Identity After World War II: Różewicz’s «The Card Index» Between Paralysis and Unfinished Liberation
Io ho scelto di essere libera. Camilla Ravera Facing her own History
Barbara Meazzi Université Côte d’Azur The archive of Ada Prospero Gobetti Marchesini preserves, among other materials, the papers related to the writing of her book Camilla Ravera – Vita in carcere e al confine (Life in Prison and in Confinement/Internal Exile), published in 1969 thanks to her tenacity. The book is now almost completely forgotten, partly… Continue reading Io ho scelto di essere libera. Camilla Ravera Facing her own History
Rethinking the Liberation of Occupied Italy: A Southern Perspective through Rita Majerotti’s Voice
Daniela Vitagliano Aix-Marseille University. This paper approaches the liberation of occupied Italy from the perspective of Southern Italy in order to examine it as a historical act that generated new tensions, contradictions, and asymmetries of power. At the moment of liberation, the South was marked by profound social and economic inequalities. On the basis of previously unpublishedarchival documents by Rita Majerotti, a militant deeply rooted in the South and… Continue reading Rethinking the Liberation of Occupied Italy: A Southern Perspective through Rita Majerotti’s Voice
Women, Liberation and Rights in Post-War Italy: L’onorevole Angelina (1947) by Luigi Zampa
Sara Delmedico University of Bologna Through an interdisciplinary approach, this paper analyses women’s condition in post-World War II Italy and highlights how the end of war and return to peace was a contradictory and profoundly ambivalent process. Luigi Zampa’s movie L’onorevole Angelina (1947) is used as a case study to demonstrate how women’s inclusion in active citizenship,… Continue reading Women, Liberation and Rights in Post-War Italy: L’onorevole Angelina (1947) by Luigi Zampa
Jewish Identity in Post-war Greece, a Comparative Approach between Thessaloniki and Thessaly region
Zacharias Sartzetakis University of the Aegean. The Holocaust had a decisive worldwide impact on the formation of the post-war Jewish identity. German persecution against Jews was, also, implemented throughout Greece, but it did not unfold in the same way in all regions of the country. There are significant variances in the survival rates of the different Jewish communities of Greece.… Continue reading Jewish Identity in Post-war Greece, a Comparative Approach between Thessaloniki and Thessaly region
The experience of the Greek Jewish women as displaced persons, 1945-1948
Effrosyni Mamouni The various narrative forms that address the tragedy of the Second World War and Nazi domination in Europe, most often revolve around the implementation of racial policies, confinement in ghettos, displacement, and the depiction of the extermination of millions of people in Nazi concentration camps, culminating in the victory of the Allied forces… Continue reading The experience of the Greek Jewish women as displaced persons, 1945-1948
Ruptured worlds, enduring ties: escape, survival, and trajectories of Salonican Jews
Maria Pantazi Department of History of the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) While commenting on his chances to escape the Nazi anti-Jewish measures in Salonica, Albert Marcos, a 22-year-old man in 1943, comments: It was a period of transitioning; our mothers didn’t speak Greek. […] And whoever had some Christian friends, they helped them, they… Continue reading Ruptured worlds, enduring ties: escape, survival, and trajectories of Salonican Jews