Tagged “Trauma and Resilience”

Browse Tagged “Trauma and Resilience” from the Canadian Macedonian Heritage Society archive, library and community collections.

Apr 16, 2017

The Story of Vasilka

The Canadian Macedonian Historical Society (CMHS) transformed this year’s Annual General Meeting into a deeply resonant cultural experience. In a special collaboration with the Macedonian Film Festival, members were treated to a screening of the evocative documentary Story of Vasilka. Directed by Giovanni Princigalli, the film is a masterclass in narrative storytelling, weaving together intimate family photographs with rare archival footage from the Kinoteka (Cinémathèque) of Skopje to create an authoritative and emotionally charged historical record. A screening was set ...

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Jan 1, 2009

Patsy Sider - SONG FOR THE REFUGGES OF AEGEAN MACEDONIA

In the Macedonian villages of Aegean heartbreaking cries were reechoing. The Greek rebels from the mother's warm lap were grabbing the child. Innocent angels helpless with frightened souls We're asking each other "What will happen to us?" Without shoes, without food Frozen without their mother's tenderness Mountains, ravines explored without pause Mountains, ravines were leaving behind without a return. The ...

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Jan 1, 2009

Patsy Sider - THE CIVIL WAR

The black veil of the night has been spread And this evening I have bitterness in my heart. The destructive civil war Still in my heart, is active. I remember the hoarse voice of the siren That made us to run breathless to find shelters. The war planes We're killing civilians and children. I remember the filthy shelters under the mountain The dark basement of our home In it three to four families gathered together ...

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Oct 4, 1992

Dećata Begalći at the Fairview Library Theatre

The Canadian Macedonian Heritage Society’s 1992 lecture, "The Plight of the Macedonian Refugee Children of the Greek Civil War," served as a profound historical and personal testimonial to the tragedy of the 30,000 Begalci evacuated in 1948. Through the detailed accounts of George Bukovski, Mary Roseova, Chris Carilo, and Risto Chovi, the event traced the arc of the Macedonian struggle from the systemic linguistic and cultural suppression under the Metaxas dictatorship to the harrowing mountain exodus and subsequent exile across the Eastern Bloc. The speakers highlighted a dual tragedy: the physical displacement of a generation and the ongoing "casualty of truth," as survivors faced political indoctrination in host countries and continued legal exclusion from their ancestral homes by the Greek state. Ultimately, the report positions the Begalci not merely as victims of war, but as a resilient global community whose advocacy for human rights and property restitution remains a vital pillar of Macedonian national identity and historical justice.

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