Children of the Greek Civil War

Children of the Greek Civil War
Author: Loring M. Danforth
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226135985

At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, 38,000 children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece and relocated to orphanages and children's homes. This book analyses the evacuation, which remains a controversial issue within Greek society.

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece
Author: Gonda Van Steen
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2021-07-12
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0472038818

Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period

Eleni

Eleni
Author: Nicholas Gage
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2010-12-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307760642

"A devoted and brilliant achievement." The New York Review of Books In 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps" behind the Iron Curtain. Eleni Gatzoyiannis, 41, defied the traditions of her small village and the terror of the communist insurgents to arrange for the escape of her three daughters and her son, Nicola. For that act, she was imprisoned, tortured, and executed in cold blood. Nicholas Gage joined his father in Massachusetts at the age of nine and grew up to be a top investigative reporter for the New York Times. And finally he returned to Greece to uncover the story he cared about most -- the story of his mother's heroic life and tragic death.

Children of the Dictatorship

Children of the Dictatorship
Author: Kostis Kornetis
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782380019

Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the “Long 1960s,” this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74). It explores the cultural as well as ideological protest of Greek student activists, illustrating how these “children of the dictatorship” managed to re-appropriate indigenous folk tradition for their “progressive” purposes and how their transnational exchange molded a particular local protest culture. It examines how the students’ social and political practices became a major source of pressure on the Colonels’ regime, finding its apogee in the three day Polytechnic uprising of November 1973 which laid the foundations for a total reshaping of Greek political culture in the following decades.

The Abducted Greek Children of the Communists

The Abducted Greek Children of the Communists
Author: Niki Karavasilis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9780805973204

The emotional story of the 28,000 children who were abducted by the Greek Communist rebels during the Greek Civil War from 1946 to 1949 and were scattered behind the Iron Curtain.

Red Acropolis, Black Terror

Red Acropolis, Black Terror
Author: Andre Gerolymatos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2004-07-06
Genre: History
ISBN:

The first full, nonpartisan history of the Greek Civil War, the brutal guerrilla conflict that launched the Cold War

After the War Was Over

After the War Was Over
Author: Mark M. Mazower
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016-09-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400884438

This volume makes available some of the most exciting research currently underway into Greek society after Liberation. Together, its essays map a new social history of Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which the country grappled--bloodily--with foreign occupation and intense civil conflict. Extending innovative historical approaches to Greece, the contributors explore how war and civil war affected the family, the law, and the state. They examine how people led their lives, as communities and individuals, at a time of political polarization in a country on the front line of the Cold War's division of Europe. And they advance the ongoing reassessment of what happened in postwar Europe by including regional and village histories and by examining long-running issues of nationalism and ethnicity. Previously neglected subjects--from children and women in the resistance and in prisons to the state use of pageantry--yield fresh insights. By focusing on episodes such as the problems of Jewish survivors in Salonika, memories of the Bulgarian occupation of northern Greece, and the controversial arrest of a war criminal, these scholars begin to answer persistent questions about war and its repercussions. How do people respond to repression? How deep are ethnic divisions? Which forms of power emerge under a weakened state? When forced to choose, will parents sacrifice family or ideology? How do ordinary people surmount wartime grievances to live together? In addition to the editor, the contributors are Eleni Haidia, Procopis Papastratis, Polymeris Voglis, Mando Dalianis, Tassoula Vervenioti, Riki van Boeschoten, John Sakkas, Lee Sarafis, Stathis N. Kalyvas, Anastasia Karakasidou, Bea Lefkowicz, Xanthippi Kotzageorgi-Zymari, Tassos Hadjianastassiou, and Susanne-Sophia Spiliotis.

Britain and the United States in Greece

Britain and the United States in Greece
Author: Spero Simeon Z. Paravantes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350142026

For the first time, Britain and the United States in Greece provides an in-depth analysis of Anglo-American diplomacy in Greece from 1946 to 1950. After Word War II, as Europe floundered economically, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee looked to disengage Britain from some of its broad international obligations and increase American support for its new foreign agenda. One place he sought to do so was in Greece. Spero Simeon Z. Paravantes reveals how the relationship between Britain and the US developed in this formative period, arguing that Britain used the fast-escalating tensions of the Cold War to direct US policy in Greece and encourage the Americans to take a more active role – effectively taking Britain's place – in the region. In the process, Paravantes sheds new light on how the American experience in Greece contributed to the formulation of the Truman Doctrine and the containment of communism, the structure of Greek institutions, and ultimately, the birth of the Cold War. Drawing on a wide range of sources from Britain, the US, Greece and the Balkans, this book is essential reading for all scholars looking to gain fresh insight into the complex origins of the Cold War, 20th-century Anglo-American relations, and the history of modern Greece.

Studies in the History of the Greek Civil War, 1945-1949

Studies in the History of the Greek Civil War, 1945-1949
Author: Lars Bærentzen
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788772890043

The papers published in this volume were originally read at the Conference on the Greek Civil War 1945-49 which was held at the Vilvorde Conference Centre in Copenhagen from 30 August to 1 September 1984.

Voices of the Lost Children of Greece

Voices of the Lost Children of Greece
Author: Mary Cardaras
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-01-10
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781839983702

Voices of the Lost Children of Greece is a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees in the 1950s after two consecutive wars that ravaged the country. Never before has this group of adoptees come together to write their stories and share their closely held feelings. While many of the adoptees have similar experiences and while they may share some common thoughts about their adoptions, their stories are vastly different, some harrowing, others remarkable. The collection will illustrate the impact of adoption itself over years, no matter if children were displaced from their parents and country as infants or as youngsters. The book will shed light on adoption from many disciplinary angles, including sociological, psychological and anthropological. It will also put these adoptions into a larger historical context. The book is further enhanced by Greek-born adoptee, academic, poet and writer, Dr. Andrew Mossin, who writes the Foreword; by Dr. Gonda Van Steen, a preeminent modern Greek scholar, who pens the first chapter about the history of such adoptions; and in the final chapter, by Dr. Eirini Papadaki, who has written extensively about the women of Greece and adoption, to bring readers a current assessment of adoption practices in Greece today.