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#282183 03/10/08 12:02 PM
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I think that this is the right forum to ask this...

I was doing some research on the population of Poland and came accross something I hadn't been looking for on wikipedia...

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Some 4 - 5,000 Greeks live in central and southeast Poland, most of whom came in 1949, after the Greek Civil War. It is estimated that after this conflict, some 14 000 Greeks came to Poland, settling mainly in the town of Zgorzelec in Lower Silesia. In the course of the time, most of them returned to their homeland or moved to Germany. Among famous Poles of Greek origin, are a popular pop singer Eleni Tzoka, drummer Milo Kurtis (who played in such bands as Maanam and Voo Voo), and guitar virtuoso Apostolis Anthimos from the legendary progressive rock band SBB.[citation

I was intrigued... was a GO parish(es) established in Poland to service the community that had lived there? I think the population has grown smaller still... But that made me curious.

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The Greeks who took refuge in Communist countries after the Greek civil war were unlikely to be church-goers!

There's a good film about the virtual kidnapping of children from villages in northern Greece and their forced removal to the Communist countries: Eleni.

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...let's see Pierogie or Spanakopita??

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I agree with Fr. Serge's observations,however,it's possible that the children and by now,grandchildren,of the original Greeks could have become Christian,though in Poland,many may have become Latin Rite Catholics.After the victory of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War in 1939,many leftist and Communist Spaniards did find refuge in the Soviet Union and,as one might expect,they had children who grew up speaking Russian.I remember one of my brother priests back in the 90's baptising the daughter of one such refugee,herself a refugee here in the US from the Soviets.Her original name was Carmen;I believe she was baptised as Xenia;I haven't seen her in years.As I recall,her first language was Russian,I don't think she knew any Spanish.


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