The Kalamata Diary

From October 28, 1940 until February of 1947, Sotiria Salivaras provided a unique eye-witness account of life in Kalamata, Greece before, during, and after World War II through her meticulous diary entries. In The Kalamata Diary: Greece, War and Emigration, Eduardo D. Faingold carefully analyzes and contextualizes the major events in modern Greek history about which Salivaras writes in her diary. He examines the expulsion of the Greek minority from Turkey in the aftermath of World War I, as well as the occupation of Greece by the Axis powers during World War II and the Greek civil war. Following Salivaras from her teenage years in Greece to her adult life in Argentina, Faingold also explores immigration patterns from Greece to Argentina and Latin America. Drawing from extensive tape-recorded interviews with Salivaras and her sons, Faingold offers a glimpse into Salivaras's life long after she ceased maintaining her diary.

Eduardo D. Faingold is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

1 Table of Contents
2 Preface
3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 1. Chapter One
Chapter 5 2. Chapter Two
Chapter 6 3. October 1940
Chapter 7 4. November 1940
Chapter 8 5. December 1940
Chapter 9 6. January 1941
Chapter 10 7. February 1941
Chapter 11 8. March 1941
Chapter 12 9. April 1941
Chapter 13 10. Dates of Heroic Achievements
Chapter 14 11. Leaving Greece
Chapter 15 12. On the Beauties of Athens
Chapter 16 13. From Athens to Rome
Chapter 17 14. In Beautiful Switzerland
Chapter 18 15. My Impressions of My Father
19 Appendix A. A Facsimile Sample from the Diary
20 References
21 About the Author