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Engendering Violence

Engendering Violence. The political persecution, incarceration and abuse of women in postwar Greece. A presentation for the Service Civil International (SCI) Museum of Political Exiles of Ai Stratis July 5 th , 2012, Athens.

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Engendering Violence

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  1. Engendering Violence The political persecution, incarceration and abuse of women in postwar Greece A presentation for the Service Civil International (SCI) Museum of Political Exiles of Ai Stratis July 5th, 2012, Athens A drawing by the artist and political exile, Katerina Hariati-Sismani

  2. Trikeri exile island Artistic depiction of ‘‘Tsagarines’’ (women shoe- makers) by the artist and political exile Katerina Hariati-Sismani (Museum of Political Exiles-Ai Stratis). Womenrepairing shoes at the exile camp at Trikeri (Rizospastis, April 16th, 2006)

  3. Artistic depictions of the Trikeri exile: the camp, the ‘water problem’, by Katerina Hariati-Sismani (Museum of Political Exiles-Ai Stratis). Women exiles at Trikeri, waiting for water, Association of Women Political Exiles

  4. Children in exile Association of Women Political Exiles

  5. Women in the ‘imagined’ Greek Nation Women at the Makronisos concentration camp (1950),behind the syrma, Association of Women Political Exiles. Women attending the class of ‘moral and national education’ at Makronisos in 1950 (Gabriilidou, 2004).

  6. Makronisos concentration camp Women arriving at Makronisos, January 1950, Association of Women Political Exiles The transfer of women from Trikeri exile camp to the Makronisos concentration camp (1950), ‘captured’ by Katerina Hariati Sismani

  7. Ai Stratis exile camp women political exiles and a wedding at Ai Stratis (Museum of Political Exiles – Ai Stratis) ‘

  8. Sexual victimization in the GCW ‘‘A woman being tortured’’, an engraving by the artist and political exile Christos Daglis. A woman raped, by Katerina Hariati-Sismani (oil painting). Museum of Political Exiles of Ai Stratis.

  9. The Female Averof Prisons, a postcard/drawing made by women political prisoners.

  10. survival mechanisms . Traditional celebrations organised by the Ai Stratis exiles. Museum of Political Exiles of Ai Stratis. A scenic (model) for a play made by the artist and political exile, Katerina Hariati-Sismani, during her exile at Trikeri island, Museum of Political Exiles of Ai Stratis.

  11. Artifacts made in prisons (Averof) and exiles camps by women detainees Museum of Political Exiles of Ai Stratis

  12. The small clay sculpture “Mother with two Children” showing a dying mother bread-feeding her two dying children was inspired from the Terezin chronicle (1941-44). Terezin was a Nazi concentration camp/ghetto during the 1941-1944 period, where more than 55,000 Jews were held. It also acted as an intermediate stop, before the transfer of Jewish prisoners to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The sculpture, “Mother with two Children” was produced together with the sketch a Terezin in Trikeri (1948-49). During her exile years Katerina Hariati-Sismani produced, among other works, 250 drawings depicting everyday scenes from the life of exile women. This particular collection has been reproduced in an album titled “Women from all around Greece”.

  13. Thank you Former political exiles during a pilgrimage trip at the island of Ai-Stratis in July 2007, (Personal Archive).

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