Open air classes were established. Some of the children like these from Promahi started to learn the Greek language for the first time; until then they knew only a Slav dialect
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Open air classes were established. Some of the children like these from Promahi started to learn the Greek language for the first time; until then they knew only a Slav dialect
From Orphans of the Greek War
1948
Gelatin silver print
Image: 18.3 x 18.8 cm
Gift of Dr. Stephen Nicholas
2005.0922.0005
Inscriptions verso (typed label): [series title and description)
verso (typed label):File Greece Children
verso (stamp): Used 14 Aug 1948 Illustrated
verso (stamp): Property of the Periodicals Art Library / 191, High Holborn, W.C.1 / Must be returned undamaged
verso (stamp): Please Credit / David Seymour - Magnum / Magnum Photos Inc. / 22 Rue de Pointoise / Paris 5e
verso (pencil): 3000/DS DS-22
verso (typed label):File Greece Children
verso (stamp): Used 14 Aug 1948 Illustrated
verso (stamp): Property of the Periodicals Art Library / 191, High Holborn, W.C.1 / Must be returned undamaged
verso (stamp): Please Credit / David Seymour - Magnum / Magnum Photos Inc. / 22 Rue de Pointoise / Paris 5e
verso (pencil): 3000/DS DS-22
TextThere are still wars today in the world: little wars, far off wars, echoes and eddies of the wider conflict that convulses our planet. Our children play and laugh without fear. In some lands, children rarely smile. They have little cause for laughter in Greece where civil war is now in its fourth year. These pages tell a story of a journey of children from Promahi (mountain war zone) to a place of refuge near Athens. They are but a few of the two hundred thousand Greek children who are refugees in their own country, whose parents have sadly renounced their care to prevent abduction to hostile lands.
At the foot of the mountains on the Greek-Yugoslav border above Edessa is the small (2000 inhabitants) village of Promahi. Small and primitive like the 30 odd other villages around it, Promahi is different in one respect; whereas the other village inhabitants had fled as soon as the war came close, the inhabitants of Promahi had refused to leave. They wanted to protect their homes. Finally the authorities decided to evacuate the children. From Promahi they are taken to Ardea where they board trucks and travel to Salonika. Here they board LST and travel to Athens.
At the foot of the mountains on the Greek-Yugoslav border above Edessa is the small (2000 inhabitants) village of Promahi. Small and primitive like the 30 odd other villages around it, Promahi is different in one respect; whereas the other village inhabitants had fled as soon as the war came close, the inhabitants of Promahi had refused to leave. They wanted to protect their homes. Finally the authorities decided to evacuate the children. From Promahi they are taken to Ardea where they board trucks and travel to Salonika. Here they board LST and travel to Athens.
