Before the War the Life was Beatiful. The War Affected Us. Greece in the Refugees' Memories.

Abstract

This collective monograph's chapter deals with the image of Greece in the memories of Greek civil-war refugees who settled in post-war Czechoslovakia. The narrators from the first generation of Greek emigrants spent their childhood in Greece.

Their memories are affected by the child-like vision of the world, on the other hand they were influenced by the political development in the 1940's (WWII and the civil war). Despite the brutalities, these people were witnesses of, an idealized image of their homeland dominates their memories.

Keywords

• Greeks
• Czechoslovakia
• Greece
• refugees
• emigration and immigration
• Greek civil war
• Communist Party of Greece
• oral history