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Voices of the Lost Children of Greece is a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees in the 1950s after two consecutive wars that ravaged the country. Never before has this group of adoptees come together to write their stories and share their closely held feelings. While many of the adoptees have similar experiences and while they may share some common thoughts about their adoptions, their stories are vastly different, some harrowing, others remarkable. The collection will illustrate the impact of adoption itself over years, no matter if children were displaced from their parents and country as infants or as youngsters. The book will shed light on adoption from many disciplinary angles, including sociological, psychological and anthropological. It will also put these adoptions into a larger historical context. The book is further enhanced by Greek-born adoptee, academic, poet and writer, Dr. Andrew Mossin, who writes the Foreword; by Dr. Gonda Van Steen, a preeminent modern Greek scholar, who pens the first chapter about the history of such adoptions; and in the final chapter, by Dr. Eirini Papadaki, who has written extensively about the women of Greece and adoption, to bring readers a current assessment of adoption practices in Greece today.
Four years ago, Greek-American journalist and academic Dr. Mary Cardaras embarked on a personal journey, one which saw her through states of loss, discovery, and renewal. ‘Voices of the Lost Children of Greece: Oral Histories of Cold War International Adoption’ edited by Mary, is a collection of 14 essays written by American and Dutch adoptees born in Greece. - Neos Kosmos
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Dr. Mary Cardaras is the Director of The Demos Center at The American College of Greece in Athens. She holds a PhD in Public and International Affairs, and is a writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker. Mary is one of the so-called 'lost children of Greece', the first group of babies and children in history to be systematically exported from their country of origin. She has spoken about and has written numerous articles about Greek adoptees and is an advocate and activist for the human rights of all adoptees. She has written a novella called Ripped at the Root (2021), the story of a stolen baby from Greece, who was reunited with her birth parents and siblings after 42 years apart. Voices of the Lost Children of Greece has also been published in Greek by Potamos Publishers in Athens (2023).
Dedication; Foreword (by poet, writer and Greek-born adoptee Dr. Andrew Mossin); Introduction (by Dr. Mary Cardaras); Chapter One: Greek Adoptions in Historical Context (by Dr. Gonda Van Steen); Chapters 2–15 The Essays from 14 Writers (all with different titles); Chapter 16: Today and Afterward (by Dr. Mary Cardaras); Acknowledgements; About the Editor.