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Subscribe to the channel / @news247gr On June 26, 1947, a grim phalanx with more than 400 members of 83 families from the border village of Aetomilitsa was taking the paths of Grammos to Albania. The escape would be for a few days, but it ended up lasting 15 years. Among them, many children. They weren't the only ones. By the end of the Civil War in 1949, nearly 27,000 refugee children had left their lives to live in a foreign place with foreign people. Seven and a half decades later, five of the children of that Aetomelitsa caravan spoke in the documentary prepared by NEWS 24/7. About their journey to Eastern Europe, their life there, but also the return to their village - in the 1960s - to encounter two new challenges: the extreme poverty of mountainous Greece and the suspicion of the Greek government, and in many cases and Greek society. FOLLOW THE NEWS 24/7: Facebook: / news247 Instagram: / news247gr Twitter: / news247gr TikTok: / news247gr https://www.news247.gr/ #NEWS247