We hoped we would escape the war. Children refugees on their way from Greece to Czechoslovakia

Abstrakt

This collective monograph's chapter deals with the issue of children refugees of the Greek civil war (1946-1949) which were transfered from their homeland to the socialist Czechoslovakia. The reconstruction of events is based on memories of narrators - former Greek children.

In their stories various adventurous experiences are intertwined with the feelings of uncertainty regarding future reunions with their families.

Klíčová slova

• Greeks
• Czechoslovakia
• Greece
• refugees
• children
• emigration and immigration
• Greek civil war
• oral history