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

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

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.

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.

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.

The Greek Civil War

The Greek Civil War
Author: Spyridon Plakoudas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781350152151

The Greek Civil War (1946-1949) was one of the few instances in the post-World War II era of a clear-cut and permanent victory by right-wing government forces over an insurgent communist movement. Spyridon Plakoudas here explores the factors which ultimately caused the downfall of the communist insurgency in Greece which had, at some points, seemed undefeatable. He questions whether the guerrilla movement fell victim to the feud between Stalin and Tito or whether the significant British and, above all, American aid in fact rescued the Greek monarchist regime from collapse. Plakoudas explores the strategies adopted by government forces in order to counter the communist insurgency, how external and internal actors influenced these policies and when, how and why these policies achieved success. Featuring previously unseen sources and documents, this book reveals the strategy and tactics of the monarchist regime.

Abandoned Children

Abandoned Children
Author: Catherine Panter-Brick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2000-08-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780521775557

This book is a collection on abandoned children illustrating the need to contextualise their position in particular cultural situations.

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.

The Greek Civil War

The Greek Civil War
Author: Spyridon Plakoudas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786731495

The Greek Civil War (1946-1949) was one of the few instances in the post-World War II era of a clear-cut and permanent victory by right-wing government forces over an insurgent communist movement. Spyridon Plakoudas here explores the factors which ultimately caused the downfall of the communist insurgency in Greece which had, at some points, seemed undefeatable. He questions whether the guerrilla movement fell victim to the feud between Stalin and Tito or whether the significant British and, above all, American aid in fact rescued the Greek monarchist regime from collapse. Plakoudas explores the strategies adopted by government forces in order to counter the communist insurgency, how external and internal actors influenced these policies and when, how and why these policies achieved success. Featuring previously unseen sources and documents, this book reveals the strategy and tactics of the monarchist regime.