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.
Marshalling archival records, oral histories, and ethnographic
fieldwork, the authors analyze the evacuation process, the
political conflict surrounding it, the children's upbringing, and
their fates as adults cut off from their parents and their
homeland. They also give voice to seven refugee children who
poignantly recount their childhood experiences and heroic efforts
to construct new lives in diaspora communities throughout the
world. A much-needed corrective to previous historical accounts,
"Children of the Greek Civil War" is also a searching examination
of the enduring effects of displacement on the lives of refugee
children.
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