Loring M. Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226135984
- eISBN:
- 9780226136004
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226136004.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, European Cultural Anthropology
This chapter presents a historical account of the evacuation of children to Eastern Europe conducted by the Greek Communist Party. It considers whether the evacuations were carried out voluntarily ...
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This chapter presents a historical account of the evacuation of children to Eastern Europe conducted by the Greek Communist Party. It considers whether the evacuations were carried out voluntarily (with the consent of the children’s parents) or by force (against their parents’ will) by examining reports of the UN Special Committee on the Balkans (UNSCOB) and firsthand accounts of refugee children themselves.Less
This chapter presents a historical account of the evacuation of children to Eastern Europe conducted by the Greek Communist Party. It considers whether the evacuations were carried out voluntarily (with the consent of the children’s parents) or by force (against their parents’ will) by examining reports of the UN Special Committee on the Balkans (UNSCOB) and firsthand accounts of refugee children themselves.
Loring M. Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226135984
- eISBN:
- 9780226136004
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226136004.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, European Cultural Anthropology
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 ...
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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. The authors present here 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, they 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. The authors 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 corrective to previous historical accounts, the book is also a searching examination of the enduring effects of displacement on the lives of refugee children.Less
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. The authors present here 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, they 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. The authors 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 corrective to previous historical accounts, the book is also a searching examination of the enduring effects of displacement on the lives of refugee children.
Panteleymon Anastasakis
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823261994
- eISBN:
- 9780823266548
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823261994.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
The epilogue traces the origins of the Damaskinos regency, the official church’s turn against the National Liberation Front (EAM), and concludes with a summary of the study. The influence of British ...
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The epilogue traces the origins of the Damaskinos regency, the official church’s turn against the National Liberation Front (EAM), and concludes with a summary of the study. The influence of British military officials such as Frank Macaskie, the civil war that broke out during the December Events (December 3, 1944-January 15, 1945), Winston Churchill’s visit to Athens in late December 1944, and, finally, the consent of the Greek king, led to the appointment of Damaskinos as regent on December 31, 1944. As part of the postwar Greek political elite’s strategy of eliminating EAM and the Greek Communist Party’s influence in society, the church leadership purged its ranks of EAM members and sympathizers. The epilogue concludes with a summary of the book, with emphasis placed on the central role played by the clergy in responding to the crises that defined the Axis occupation such as the nationwide famine and the Holocaust.Less
The epilogue traces the origins of the Damaskinos regency, the official church’s turn against the National Liberation Front (EAM), and concludes with a summary of the study. The influence of British military officials such as Frank Macaskie, the civil war that broke out during the December Events (December 3, 1944-January 15, 1945), Winston Churchill’s visit to Athens in late December 1944, and, finally, the consent of the Greek king, led to the appointment of Damaskinos as regent on December 31, 1944. As part of the postwar Greek political elite’s strategy of eliminating EAM and the Greek Communist Party’s influence in society, the church leadership purged its ranks of EAM members and sympathizers. The epilogue concludes with a summary of the book, with emphasis placed on the central role played by the clergy in responding to the crises that defined the Axis occupation such as the nationwide famine and the Holocaust.
