ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks are due to the family of Atanas Katinovski for allowing me to translate and publish their father’s and grandfather’s history of Banitsa. Readers are asked to consider supporting the family charity for children with rare diseases in the Republic of North Macedonia at www.dajtenikrilja.mk Rebeka Jankovska Risteski administers the Give Us Wings charity.

The original text in Macedonian of “Banitsa-Lerinsko in the Maelstrom oftheWars”hasbeenuploadedwiththefamily’s permission to the websites of www.pollitecon.com and to the Canadian Macedonian Historical Society (www.macedonianhistory.ca). Thank you to Victor Bivell and to the CMHS.

Biljana Kuzmanovska of Skopje and Valerie Sylvester of Toronto are collaborators and co-translators of the book. Biljana teaches English in Skopje. She is also a translator, mountain enthusiast and nature lover. Valerie is a professional musician in Toronto and like me was a “repeat offender” in the Macedonian classes taught by Professor Christina Kramer of the University of Toronto. Thank you to both of them for their tireless efforts. The undersigned is a physician who after this foray into translation will not give up his day job.

Thanks to Victor Bivell of www.pollitecon.com for the old map of the area. Thanks to Paul Kiriakou, Jim Mangos, Jim Craigmyle and Lambe Velakis for their assistance with photographs.

Thanks to Dr. Christina Kramer for her knowledge of and enthusiasm for all things Macedonian and Balkan. She has a love for Macedonian music and culture and has generously shared her insights with us. Her courses gave us the tools to do this work.

Diane Dussault and Matthew Adams of Toronto are the professional editors who gave immeasurable help and guidance in polishing the revised textand designing the coverforthe second edition. Mary Morrison of Orangeville and Ivana Natkova of Mississauga have assisted in organizing the manuscript. Any errors and omissions belong to the undersigned.

Constantine (Dan) Mallin