Book Presentation at FOUGARO

The Fougaro Library, in collaboration with the Association of Philologists of Argolida, invites you on Saturday 4 April 2026, at 7pm, to the presentation of the book “The Long Night of the Occupation: Human Losses and Material Destruction in Occupied Greece (1941–1944)”, published by Alexandria, edited by Stratos Dordanas and Menelaos Charalampidis.

The book will be presented by co-editor Stratos Dordanas (Associate Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Tasos Chatzianastasiou (PhD in History, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), one of the contributors to the volume. The event will be moderated by Nikolaos Boubaris (Philologist – Historian), while the speakers will be welcomed by Giannis Tsiodras, head of the Fougaro Library.

Eighty years have passed since the end of World War II, during which millions of people lost their lives, material destruction was immeasurable, and the barbarity of the genocidal Third Reich culminated in the systematic extermination of European Jewry and other population groups such as the Roma and people with disabilities. Greece is among the countries that suffered disproportionately high losses relative to its size and population.

Undoubtedly, the triple German, Italian, and Bulgarian occupation, which led to the administrative fragmentation of the country, brought additional hardships, while the nightmarish famine still haunts collective memory, giving the word “hunger” a particular weight in the Greek vocabulary. Arrests, blockades, mass executions of resistance fighters and civilians, the destruction of Jewish communities, the burning of inhabited areas, concentration camps, and the policy of political chaos and social division all accompanied the daily struggle for survival, making death omnipresent in occupied Greece.

The book “The Long Night of the Occupation” (Alexandria Publications, 2024) will be available for purchase on the day of the event at the FOUGARO LIBRARY.