Word: stamatia
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...years, before the Communists came, Stamatia Moschou never once left the mountain village of Vavouri that was her home. There her ancestors were born and died; there her children grew up to bear and bring up children of their own. But in the years just after World War II, when Communist guerrillas roamed and pillaged at will in the mountains of northern Greece, whole villages were often kidnaped as hostages. An estimated 40,000 Greeks, mostly civilian women and children, were rounded up from farms and firesides and taken behind the Iron Curtain. The villages that had been their homes...
...village of Vavouri was no exception. One day in 1948 the Red raiders aimed their guns at 84-year-old Stamatia Moschou and her family, and ordered them to march toward Albania. Along with 300 of their fellow villagers, the Moschou family−grandmother Stamatia, her daughter Alexandra, her grandsons Christopher, 15, and Evanghelos, I, her granddaughters Dimitra, Maria and Spiridoula−were driven across the mountains for five days and most of four nights. For close to a year they were herded from camp to camp, between Albania and Yugoslavia. At last they were thrown into the hold...
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