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The Position of Oral History Testimonies from the “Child Refugees” in Macedonian Politics of Memory. Case Study: Testimony of a Child Refugee from the Greek Civil War

Ivana Hadjievska


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Abstract

In Macedonian culture and remembrance, the children evacuated from northern Greek villages in 1948 by communist activists during the Greek Civil War and sent to socialist states in the Balkans and in Eastern Europe are known as „child refugees from the Aegean part of Macedonia.“ Such narratives, as part of a contested past, play an important part in the national politics of memory, usually as a tool utilized in the master narratives, but are not theoretically analyzed any further and lack further epistemic and educational presence in the historical curriculum. Thus, I am interested in the position of these oral testimonies in the politics of memory and their potential to challenge the politics of memory.

Keywords

oral history; politics of memory; child refugees; Greek Civil War

Hrčak ID:

277583

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/277583

Publication date:

31.12.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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