"Those were difficult years…"

Considering that the oral accounts of the people who experienced the events at a difficult period in time is the most important of all the other research material, I am attempting, with this article, to present a few phases of the captivity of the Vlachophones in Požarevac in 1916. The main objective is to depict the climate of the era throughout the time frame from 1916 -- the commencement of their captivity outside Greece - and their return in 1918 through the personal and collective experiences of ordinary people. It is an effort to highlight the value of the oral culture, incorporating the voice of the unseen protagonists into the historical data. It describes the way they reached this specific area, the two years they spent there, and the four phases of their return

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Captivity · Oral history · Sociology · Balkan and Eastern European Studies · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Psychology