The Day They Were Driven Out: Strantza And The Black Easter Of 1914

Greek civilians with carts crossing a bridge during population movements in Eastern Thrace in the early 1920s

The Day They Were Driven Out: Strantza and the Black Easter of 1914

On Easter Monday, 1914, Greek families in Strantza, Eastern Thrace, were expelled by force. A close account of one village’s expulsion and what the records show.