
Talking Until Nightfall
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When Nazi occupiers arrived in Greece in 1941, it was the beginning of a horror that would reverberate through generations. In the city of Salonica (Thessaloniki), almost 50,000 Jews were sent to Nazi concentration camps during the war, and only 2,000 returned.
A Jewish doctor named Isaac Matarasso and his son escaped imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Nazis and joined the resistance. After the city's liberation they returned to rebuild Salonica and, along with the other survivors, to grapple with the near-total destruction of their community.
Isaac was a witness to his Jewish community's devastation, and the tangled aftermath of grief, guilt and grace as survivors returned home. Talking Until Nightfall presents his account of the tragedy and his moving tribute to the living and the dead. His story is woven together with his son Robert's memories of being a frightened teenager spared by a twist of fate, with an afterword by his grandson Francois that looks back on the survivors' stories and his family's place in history.
This slim, wrenching account of loss, survival, and the strength of the human spirit will captivate readers and ensure the Jews of Salonica are never forgotten.
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Foreword: Remembering the Witness
I An Urgent Conversation
Pauline Matarasso
A Note on the Texts
II Early Years, Late Reflections
Isaac Matarasso
The Drawer of the Past
III ...And Yet Not All Died...
Isaac Matarasso
A Conversation with Our Dead
Introduction
Phase One: Partial Toleration
Phase Two: Oppression
Phase Three: Dislocation and Destruction
The Last Eight Jews Killed by the Germans in Salonica
The First Account to Reach Salonica
The Second Account
After the Atrocity
All Did Not Die
Epilogue
IV From the Salonica Ghetto
Isaac Matarasso
Mordoh Pitchon, Teacher
Life in the Ghetto
At the SD Headquarters, 42 Velissariou Street
Harbi Haïm Habib
In Memory of Dr Joseph Amariglio
The Liberation
V During Your Lifetime During Your Days
Robert Matarasso
You Are a Jew
The Wireless
The Tram
Meeting Wisliceny
The Break With Andreas
Leaving Tsimiski Street
Between Fear and Hope
The Prayer
VI Listening to the Witnesses
François Matarasso
Notes
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