Including More Than 450 Adoptee-Recommended Titles!

Books About Intercountry Adoptions from Greece

  • Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid pro quo?

    Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid pro quo?

    by Gonda Van Steen

    This book presents a committed quest to unravel and document the postwar adoption networks that placed more than 3,000 Greek children in the United States, in a movement accelerated by the aftermath of the Greek Civil War and by the new conditions of the global…

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  • Ripped at the Root: An Adoption Story

    Ripped at the Root: An Adoption Story

    by Mary Cardaras

    “With searing detail and lean, crisp prose, in Ripped at the Root Mary Cardaras tells the story of Dena Polites, a woman born to a young unwed Greek couple who was adopted by married Greek Americans in Ohio. Polites’s tale serves as a focal point…

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