The Illusion of Safety: The Story of the Greek Jews During the Second World War

The Illusion of Safety chronicles the little known history of the Holocaust in Greece. Through a collection of personal memoirs of survivors and resistance fighters and wartime reports from the U.S. State Department and Great Britain Michael Matsas recounts the tragic loss of Greek Jewry. Late in WWII while the Allied governments knew about Hitlers Final Solution and had the means to disseminate information in Greece the Greek Jews were kept uninformed of the death camps and lulled into complacency. 87% of this historic community was destroyed. In addition the author recounts his own survival story as a boy of 13 of his year in a mountain village with his parents and sister the villagers and the partisans who saved them.