“Homecoming merits recognition for its meticulous attention to source material. . . . The book’s focus on gender and social aspects is particularly noteworthy. . . . Králová frequently demonstrates her ability to understand both the individual memory work in the context of personal testimonies and the importance of the collective mnemonic landscape.”

Comparative Southeast European Studies

“Králová’s study of Holocaust survivors and Greece traces the journeys and experiences of fighters, deportees, refugees, and those who hid as they returned to their homes. She demonstrates the agency of survivors, challenges the dominant narrative of the ‘good’ Greeks who helped Jews during the Holocaust, and the disappointment of return. . . . She examines the hopes and experiences of Jews and . . . details the ways in which survivors’ expectations about returning home helped them survive but could not be met in the specific political and cultural context of postwar Greece.”

European Journal of Jewish Studies

“A moving account of an important coda to the Holocaust in Greece: the difficult return of the very few Greek Jewish survivors to their homeland. More than half of those who returned stayed only briefly. This book tells us why and shows what Greece—and its Jews—have lost as a result.”

K. E. Fleming, author of “Greece: A Jewish History”

“With wisdom and elegance, Králová’s Homecoming explores the wartime and immediate post-wartime experience of Greek Jewish survivors, resisters, and the hidden and displaced as they returned home and struggled to confront shattering post-war realities. Homecoming is a feat of painstaking research and a great contribution to Greek, Jewish, and Holocaust histories.”

Sarah Abrevaya Stein, author of “Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century”