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Dr Isaac Matarasso was born in Salonica in 1892, when the city was part of the Ottoman Empire. He studied medicine at the University of Toulouse, and published his thesis in 1917. He practised in Salonica until his arrest in 1943, and organised health services for the Jewish survivors after the German withdrawal. He moved to Athens in 1947, with his wife Andree and son Robert, where he resumed medical practice until his death in 1958.
The resurrection and enhancement of [this] 1948 manuscript is a triumph ... A unique Holocaust memoir. * Kirkus Reviews * Powerful ... This poignant eyewitness account articulates the human cost of the Holocaust. * Publishers Weekly * A poignant, gripping, and beautiful multigenerational look at life before and during the Holocaust, as well as the process of rebuilding after the war. * Library Journal * The book is one of the most moving books I've ever read and truly unique ... Matarasso is revealed in a series of poignant literary snapshots - some taken by others, some by himself - which give the book a unique, multi-layered perspective. They utterly confound my neat rabbinic categorisations and convey the unbearable anguish of faith and truth. * Rabbi Tony Bayfield, former Head of Britain's Movement for Reform Judaism and author of Being Jewish Today * Powerful ... Dr Matarasso's calm and humane narrative tells a story too little known. * The Tablet * Extraordinary ... An account of the destruction of the Jewish population of Salonica, now Thessaloniki, during the Second World War, related by a man who was at its heart. * New European *
