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Hosted by Hellenic Heritage Foundation · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 39 episodes
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The Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) is committed to supporting Hellenic education, culture and heritage initiatives across Canada. Its award-winning History Committee creates public history projects for a diaspora audience. This podcasting channel “HHF Presents” seeks to inform and narrate stories from our Greek past.
Hellenic Heritage Foundation hosts HHF Presents, a society show with 39 episodes published.
How does a nation go on after the traumas experienced? How do you trust your neighbours after the horrors of what each side did to the other? After suffering a devastating loss, how and when were leftist sympathizers and
Homes destroyed, family members killed, displaced from their homes, civilians endure the brunt of trauma during a civil war, especially children. Prof. Spyros Tsioutsioubis, from the University of Manchester, discusses h
The enemy within. Families divided. Men, women, and even children choosing sides and taking up arms. Political science professor, Phil Triadafilopoulos at the University of Toronto, joins this episode to talk about the m
The Varkiza Agreement of 1945 was supposed to bring a truce between the Nationalists and the Communists. How then, did the country plunge into a civil war over a year later on March 31, 1946? Guest Iasonas Rodopoulos, Ph
World War II ends as the Axis occupying forces withdraw from Greece in the fall of 1944. Competing visions for how the country should be run widen the divide between the anti-communist right and the anti-monarchist left.
How the occupiers left Greece and the power vacuum left behind. How the roots of the Civil War are taking shape as conflict between resistance groups builds, fueled by ideological differences. With guest Triadafilos Tria
A look at Jewish life in Greece, before, during and after the War. The persecution Jews faced, particularly in Thessaloniki, and eventually deportations to concentration camps. How some Jewish Greeks survived and how thi
Under the Axis Occupation, the Greek state collapsed and Greeks were subjected to hyperinflation, hunger, starvation, ongoing violence and atrocities. But a Resistance Movement grew, determined to overthrow the German, I
War began with a cruel and punishing winter at the Albanian front, which led to victory for Greece – and an eventual German invasion. As parts of Greece quickly fell, the island of Crete was the site of the first major A
An examination of how the war played out in Greece, and how it destabilized a nation to the point of an eventual Civil War. This era of Greece’s history led to a massive emigration and created a large Greek diaspora in C
As fascism was spreading across Europe, Ioannis Metaxas seized dictatorial powers and transformed daily life in Greece. But his militarization of the nation became a factor when Greece was pulled into World War II on Oct
In November 2024, Canadian veterans went on a special trip to Cyprus to commemorate 60 years of peacekeeping on the island. We learn more about that trip and the role Canada’s peacekeepers played in Cyprus. Guests includ
Cyprus and its politics and economics since 1974. The role Canadian peacekeepers played in Cyprus and efforts to bring lasting peace through a bizonal bicommunal federation. With guests Iasonas Rodopoulos, York Universit
The 1974 invasion created many Cypriot refugees – both Greek and Turkish. This episode examines the Cypriot diaspora across the globe, how it maintains its ethnicity and ties with the island. With guests Theo Xenophontos
The events that led to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus on July 20, 1974 and what happened to Cypriot citizens on both sides of the Green Line. With guests Prof. Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York U
The Republic of Cyprus gained its independence from Great Britain in 1960. This episode looks at the road to nationhood and how coexistence between the ethnic Greek and ethnic Turkish populations was troubled from the st
Everything you need to know about Cyprus: its distinctiveness, culture, history and how it fits into a larger Hellenic world. With guests Neophytos Loizides, the University of Warwick, and Elisseos Kyrillou.
The aftermath of the Athens Polytechnic student uprising and the return to democracy.
On November 14, 1973, students barricade themselves inside the Athens Polytechnio. In the end, there would be bloodshed, but history was made.
How people in the arts reacted to the military dictatorship and how counterculture tried to drown out that resistance.
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