EXHIBITION “LIVING IN CONFINED SPACES: TRIKERI, FEMALE CONCENTRATION CAMP”
Selection of quotations and exhibition design: Magda Fytili
Selection of archival material: Ada Kapola
Illustration-editing and technical editing of interviews: Xenophontas Vardaros
The interviews were conducted by Magda Fytili
Fragments from the visit of exiled women in Trikeri, Archive of Leonidas Vardaros
The quotes are taken from the following testimonies:
– Apostolopoulou, Natalia. Grothia sto skotadi [Fist in the dark]. Athens: Sixroni Epoxi, 1984.
– Association of Women Political Exiles. Stratopeda Ginaikon. Xios, Trikeri, Makronisos, Ai Stratis 1948-1954 [Women’s camps]. Athens: Alfeios, 2006.
– Farfaliou, Maria. Koritsia se perikleistous xorous. Martiries 1942-1952 [Girls in confined spaces. Testimonies, 1942-1952]. Athens: Alexandreia, 2020.
– Hart, Janet. New voices in the nation. Women and the Greek Resistance, 1941-1964. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996.
– Kotsaki, Margarita. Mia zoi gemati agones [A life full of struggles]. Athens, Sixroni Epoxi, 1987.
– Lefka, Eleni. Gynaikes stin exoria [Women in exile], 1964.
– Mastroleon-Zerva, Marigoula. Exoristes. Xios, Trikeri, Makronisi [Exiles. Xios, Trikeri, Makronisi]. Athens: Sixroni Epoxi, 1986
– Papadimitriou-Maroudi, Eirini. Gynaikes stin eksoria [Women at exile]. Athens: Kedros, 1979.
– Pagoulatou, Regina. Exile. A Chronicle, 1948-1950. New York: Pella Publishing Company. 1999,
– Staveri, Ourania. To martiriko trigono ton exoriston gynaikon. Xios-Trikeri-Makronisi [The torturing triangle of the exiled women. Xios-Trikeri-Makronisi]. Athens: Paraskinio, 2006.
– Vasileiou, Virgo. Ena klonari anthismeno reiki [One blooming brunch of ericea]. Athens: Themelio, 1999.
– Vervenioti, Tasoula. “Makronisi: martyria kai martiries gynaikon” [Makronisi: Martyrdom and testimonies of women], Istoriko topio kai Istoriki Mnimi. To paradeigma tis Makronisou [Historical landscape and Historical Memory. The example of Makronisos]. Athens: Filistor, 2000.
The archival material comes from the following ASKI’s archival collections:
– Photographic archive of Nikos Margaris
– Victoria’s Theodorou Archive
– Virgo’s Vassiliou Archive
The rights of the archival material belong to the Archives of Contemporary Social History (ASKI).
The rights to the interviews belong to the So-Close project.
TERMS OF USE
Free use for educational, research and non-profit purposes
EXHIBITION “A MIRROR TO THE PAST? FROM THE GREEK ISLANDS TO ALEPPO AND FROM ALLEPO TO THE GREEK ISLANDS”
Selection of quotations and exhibition design: Magda Fytili
Quotes from the interviews of Syrian refugees in the context of the So-Close project are used. The interviews were conducted by Magda Fytili
Interviews:
Interview with Basima (pseudonym), Athens, 23 June 2020.
Interview with Carim (pseudonym), Athens, 5 July 2020.
Interview with Hamida (pseudonym), Athens, 11 July 2020.
Interview with Amin (pseudonym), Athens, 12 July 2020.
Interview with Said (pseudonym), Athens, 14 July 2020.
The quotes from Greek refugees are taken from the following testimonies:
– Makridakis, Yannis. In the fences, out of the fences, everyone. Chios refugees and soldiers in the Middle East. Narrations 1941-1946. Athens: Estia, 2010.
– Bratsos, Nasos. Aegean refugees in World War II. (Turkey-Middle East-Africa-Cyprus). An odyssey of survival through the narratives of the protagonists. Athens: Notios Anemos, 2017.
Regarding the issue of the Greek refugees during World War II, see indicatively:
– Lambrou, Alexandros. “Refugees from Greece and the Dodecanese to Turkey during World War II (1941-1944)”, 2020, PIXELS@humanities, 1. https://doi.org/10.12681/pixels-h.25405.
– Michaelides, D. Iakovos. The children of Odysseus. Greek refugees in the Middle East and Africa (1941-1946). Athens, Metaixmio, 2018.
The rights to the interviews belong to the So-Close project
TERMS OF USE
Free use for educational, research and non-profit purposes