Twice A Stranger
The 20th century is often called the century of expulsions.
From the collapse and break up of multi-ethnic European empires after World War I, to the creation of independent post-colonial states in the second half of the century, and finally, the demise of communist states in the last decade of the century, nation building has been a violent process. Millions of people around the globe have been forced to leave their homelands, many of them never to return again.
The human cost of refugee displacement is reflected in the testimonies of those who lived to tell the tale. These stories - whether from Greece, Turkey, Germany, Poland, India, Pakistan or Cyprus - reveal a common human experience of lost homelands and communities ripped apart: the experience of being “Twice a Stranger”
