Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Greece: Memory, Testimony and Subjectivity by Pothiti Hantzaroula (review)

Not all Albanians were obedient tools of the sultan but rather were allies up to the point where their interests diverged from those of the Sublime Porte. At the end of the day both Albanian beys and Greek kapetans were forced to submit not so much to the power of the Ottoman and Greek states but rather to changes conjured in faraway London, harbingers of the modernization which changed the map of the Balkans and the societies of the people living there. In that respect, the original title of the book, Δέν ειν’ ο περσινός καιρός . . . , could be accurately translated as “the times, they are a-changing.”