| Sofka Trnovska, 62 meets
her brother Pedro Treinov, 69 for the first time in 18 years. Last time
he came to visit her in the then Yugoslav Macedonia, but they often talk
via phone. They were split as children when she was sent away as a child
refugee, and he being older stayed behind. It is her first time to return
to the village. Pedro still lives in their childhood home, although he
has replaced it with a modern house. This particular family was split
in three by the war, Sofka went as a child refugee and grew up in Czechoslovakia,
and she not reunited with the family for 8 years. The rest of the family
with their sister Fana fled a year later to Yugoslav Macedonia when the
Greek Army arrived in the village. Unfortunately Pedro and his grandfather
were in the hills with the sheep, and when they returned the Greek Army
caught him, 14 years old he became a soldier. The three sisters and brothers
grew up in different countries. |
