Children of the Greek Civil War : refugees and the politics of memory /
Loring M. Danforth and Riki van Boeschoten.
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- xv, 329 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-320) and index.
part 1. Histories. Framing the subject ; The evacuation of children to Eastern Europe ; The paidopoleis of Queen Frederica -- part 2. Stories. Refugee children in Eastern Europe ; Kostas Tsimoudis ; Evropi Marinova ; Stefanos Gikas ; Maria Bundovska Rosova ; Children of the paidopoleis ; Efterpi Tsiou ; Traian Dimitriou ; Kostas Dimou -- part 3. Ethnographies. Refugees, displacement, and the impossible return ; Communities of memory, narratives of experience ; The politics of memory: creating a meaningful past.
At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, thirty-eight thousand children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece. The Greek Communist Party relocated half of them to orphanages in Eastern Europe, while their adversaries in the national government placed the rest in children’s homes elsewhere in Greece. A point of contention during the Cold War, this controversial episode continues to fuel tensions between Greeks and Macedonians and within Greek society itself. Loring M. Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten present here for the first time a comprehensive study of the two evacuation programs and the lives of the children they forever transformed.
Greece--History--Refugees--Europe, Eastern--Civil War, 1944-1949 Greece--History--Children--Civil War, 1944-1949 Greece--History--Evacuation of civilians--Civil War, 1944-1949 Greece--History--Civil War, 1944-1949--Personal narratives