Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of Memory

by Loring M. Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226135993
• ISBN13: 9780226135991
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"