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Friday November 20, 1998

U.S. Holocaust museum to get postwar archives from Greece

ATHENS (JTA) -- The Greek Foreign Ministry will ship 25 crates of archival documents to U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in time f
The shipment will include a book published by the Greek government in English. "Documents on the History of the Greek Jews" cont

The book is based on 159 of the ministry's files relating to the cultural, economic and political activities of Greek Jews and to their suffering during the Holocaust.

Steven Bowman, a professor of Judaic studies at the University of Cincinnati who helped compile the English-language volume, said the book contains many previously unpublished official documents that languished in the Foreign Ministry archives until three years ago.

"We come to the real problem that the appearance of this volume punctures like a lance in the boil of denial. Nazis expropriated, exploited then killed the Jews. But after the war, who got the loot?" he asked.

Greece is one of the only countries that gave back to the remaining Jewish community all the property that belonged to Jews before the war. Some 85 percent of the country's prewar Jewish population of 80,000 perished in Nazi death camps.

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