We lived as Greeks and we died as Greeks": Thessalonican Jews in Auschwitz and the meaning of nationhood

The word "Greek" is systematically used by all Jewish Holocaust survivors from Thessaloniki when they talk about their suffering. "Greekness" was more than a sense of common origin. Turning to the words of the survivors attempting to understand what they meant when they spoke of "Greeks" in Auschwitz is not to inquire only about the strategies but about the meaning of survival itself.