KOSTAS:  MY STORY,  GANIAS' GREEK CIVIL WAR MEMOIR Author:  Konstantinos N. Ganias Literary Review by Eleni Sakellis Published in The National Herald, April 6, 2019 ------------------------------ I am excited that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ The Greek Civil War continues to haunt many to this day. For those who lived through the horrific events that took place in Greece during and after World War II, the images and experiences have left their indelible mark and indeed have influenced the course of Greek history and current events.  The reconciliation so longed for and needed has been continually put off, delayed by the natural tendency of most people to keep silent about traumatic events in life, to hide the uncomfortable emotions, shame, survivors’ guilt, and just pretend that everything i...

GREEK AMERICAN COMMUNISTS AND THE SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL STRIKE OF 1934 By Daniel Frontino Elash Published in the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, March 2007 - Volume 33 , pages 22-38 ----- DANIEL FRONTINO FLASH is a graduate student at San Francisco State University where he earned a BA degree in an interdisciplinary special major, Mediterranean Languages and History, which included the study of modern Greek, Italian, and Arabic. His graduate work focuses on American immigrant and labor history. ----- "While not exactly a household name, Nick Bordoise is a man of some importance to local and national labor history due to his violent death in the course of the 1934 longshoremen's strike in San Francisco. Due to the controversy then and now about the status of immigrants, especially those with radical political commitments, even those who do remember Bordoise do not necessarily remember that he was a Greek and a communist—two characterizations he wo...

GREEKS OF THE FORMER USSR SINCE 1991 By DIONYSSIS KALAMVREZOS Published in the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Issue 2 - Year 2005 Pages 29-58 ----- You can read the entire article for FREE by CLICKING HERE - September 2005 Issue Section headings from within article include: Greece and Russia Greek Communities in Russia and the USSR Population Movements after the Break-up of the USSR Conflicts and Other Crisis in the First post-Soviet Period Greece's Initiatives in Favor of the Diaspora The Operation "Golden Fleece" in Abkhazia Assistance to Greek Refugees from Chechnya Prospects of the Diaspora ----- DIONYSSIS KALAMVREZOS served as Head of the Consular Section of the Embassy of Greece in Moscow (1992-1997) and as Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations (1998-2002). He participated in special missions to the Greek embassies in Tbilisi (1993) and Nicosia (1997) on Diaspora matters.

THE GREEK CIVIL WAR AND CHILD MIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA by Joy Damousi Published in Social History Vol. 37, No. 3, August 2012 This is an interesting paper that describes the removal of Greek children during the Greek Civil War and the efforts of Australia and other countries to try and reunite families. Excerpt from this scholarly paper: . . . .  I shall briefly outline the circumstances under which children were removed from their families, and Australia's role on the world stage with regard to child migration at this time. The Greek Civil War created conditions whereby children were removed from their homes out of war zones and into neighbouring eastern European countries. It was the first in which incipient Cold War rivalries caused a civil war. Following the Second World War, Greece was alone in its inability to find a peaceful solution to the post-war order. While the leaders of the Civil War were communist-inspired and had external links, it was a local struggle. ...

Ghosts of Communist Greece in Serbia - authored by Alexander Billinis on September 7, 2013, ΝΕΟ Magazine  In spite of a very different climate, in Serbia you are really never far from Greece. The culture, the history, the religion, and even the DNA are often eerily similar. Greek-Serbian interaction goes back from the Byzantine era to the present day multitude of Greek investors, students, and expats (like me), and as I have found living here, in Serbia’s northwestern Vojvodina province, the Ghosts of Communist Greece are all around us. Until recently we lived in Sombor, a lovely city clearly showing its heritage as a key center in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Its population has always been a mosaic of Serbs, Hungarians, Croats, and other nationalities. The architecture and homes, including ours, would not look out of place in Austria and Germany. Indeed, the villages surrounding Sombor were once full of Germans speaking a Schwabian dialect, until the post-World W...

The Bulkes Experiment:  A "Greek Republic" in Yugoslavia 1945-1949 was written by Milan Ristovic - published in the journal Balkan Studies, Volume 46, 2012; Institute for Balkan Studies. Copyright by the Institute for Balkan Studies.  The users take the right to read, download, copy, print, search, distribute or link to the full text of the articles. ----- The Varkiza Peace Agreement on February 1945 ends communist insurgency which started in December on the streets of Athens.  The Agreement which included disarmament of ELAS units and amnesty should create conditions for political solution of the Greek crisis.  But, for several thousand most radical ELAS members the new situation was unacceptable and was equal to capitulation.  Therefore, they preferred to emirate. Most chose Yugoslavia as their destination where they joined the already present refugee groups, while the others went to Bulgaria and Albania.  Most of them were ELAS memb...

I just borrowed the book "HERAKLES & THE SWASTIKA - Greek Volunteers in the German Army, Police & SS 1943-1945" by Antonio J. Munoz, through the Inter-library loan program.  I believe it was published in 1998 by Axis Europa Books.   It claims to be the "History of the little known Greek collaborationist forces.  The author travelled extensively gathering new data & unpublished photos."  It's actually quite short, only 68 pages, including 36 photographs and 35 detailed battle maps. It includes 23 Greek names (listed below) along with the Table of Contents.  I was disappointed in the book, it has some interesting photographs, but I hoped that it would provide more details regarding the Greek Volunteers.   Good luck with your Greek family history research. Georgia Keilman nee Stryker (Stratigakos) http://HellenicGenealogyGeek.com http://hellenicgenealogygeek.blogspot.com Join me on the Hellenic Genealogy Geek group on Facebook GREEK NAMES ME...

The book "ELAS:  Greek Resistance Army" by Maj-Gen. Stefanos Sarafis is a biographical memoir and includes details on strategy meetings and names of people involved.  The original version was first published in 1946 in Athens, and then translated into English in 1980.   I was able to acquire this book through the Inter-library loan program at my local library.  If you wish to purchase the book, there are several different versions available through the following link. Search Amazon.com for ELAS: Greek Resistance Army - Sarafis Below you will find the Table of Contents and the 432 Greek names mentioned in the book.   Good luck with your Greek family history genealogy research. Georgia Keilman nee Stryker (Stratigakos) http://HellenicGenealogyGeek.com http://hellenicgenealogygeek.blogspot.com TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Biographical Memoir Preface to English Edition Brief Historical Introduction Chapter 1 - FIRST ALLIANCES Chapter 2 - JOINING ...