This book presents a committed quest to unravel and document the
postwar adoption networks that placed more than 3,000 Greek
children in the United States, in a movement accelerated by the
aftermath of the Greek Civil War and by the new conditions of the
global Cold War. Greek-to-American adoptions and, regrettably, also
their transactions and transgressions, provided the blueprint for
the first large-scale international adoptions, well before these
became a mass phenomenon typically associated with Asian children.
The story of these Greek postwar and Cold War adoptions, whose
procedures ranged from legal to highly irregular, has never been
told or analyzed before. Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece
answers the important questions: How did these adoptions from
Greece happen? Was there any money involved? Humanitarian rescue or
kid pro quo? Or both? With sympathy and perseverance, Gonda Van
Steen has filled a decades-long gap in our understanding, and
provided essential information to the hundreds of adoptees and
their descendants whose lives are still affected today.
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