Date and Time: Thursday, 6th June, 2024 at 18:00h GMT
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June's Greek Dialogues seminar features Lewis-Gibson Visiting Fellow Prof. Violetta Hionidou (Newcastle University) discussing migration prompted by a period of mass starvation during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II.
Occupied Greece experienced a deadly famine during WWII. As in most famines, one of the coping mechanisms of the population was migration. The population-movement restrictions imposed by the Occupying forces, reduced the frequency of such movements but did not eliminate them.
This presentation focuses on the internal and transnational movements that Greeks undertook during WWII, while their country was occupied and famished (April 1941 to October 1944). It discusses some of the movements, the decision-making processes of the people that led to the choices they made, and how the ever-evolving food situation further shaped those decisions. The presentation will finish with an appraisal of migration as a famine-coping mechanism.
Online Access Details
Topic: Greek Dialogues - Famine migration in Occupied Greece, 1941-1944
Time: Thursday 6th June, 2024 at 18:00h GMT
Join Zoom Meeting: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85835593823?pwd=ai9wc3ZBV2pUUG41dG0ya1hDVTBLZz09
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Meeting ID: 858 3559 3823
Passcode: 529094
Livestreaming on:
: The Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies Channel
Image credits
Near Suez, camp of Moses Wells. Visit to the planned camp for the evacuated children of Greece, 7.06.1942. Source: ICRC, Geneva.
Relief to the Greek islands, 1940-1945. Chios island. After unloading sacks of flour. 1942 Source: ICRC, Geneva, V-P-HIST-03308-04A, ©ICRC ARCHIVES (ARR).
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