Refugee Child of 1948 Kristina Ristova speaks of the lasting pain of separation

Refugee children and selected mothers at a designated point for transportation

Refugee children and selected mothers at a designated point for transportation Source: Wikimedia-Public Domain

At age 7 taken to Hungary from her family in Aegean Macedonia..her father joins the partizans..her mother dies aged 36.. her youngest brother remains in Greece.. Following Stalin's death, the family is reunited in Poland in 1953.



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