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Posting the recent interview by Thanos Davelis (The Greek Current) with Mary Cardaras, a Greek-born adoptee, author of “Ripped at the Root” and editor of “Voices of the Lost Children of Greece”, journalist, and founder and director of The Demos Center at The American College of Greece.
The touching history Dr Cardaras narrates is that of children who were taken away from their birth parents in Greece, and given up for adoption to families abroad.. a story of collusion between the Greek state, church, and other corrupt organizations and participants, and the kafkaesque response of the Greek government dealing with unsealing of adoptees’ birth records and (non)granting of citizenship.
The petition “Nostos for Greek Adoptees” asks the Greek state to recognize 4,000 of Greek-born adoptees, and to accept that the post-war Greek state was a party to the uprooted adoptees’ systematic export from Greece, as the children were offered for adoption to new parents and in places unknown.
Click here to access and sign petition…
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