By: Lefa Ognenova-Michova & Kathleen Mitsou-Lazaridis
P/b 112 pages
Price: $20 CAD USD $15
This is the story of Lefa Ognenova, a girl born in the picturesque mountain village of Neret, in Aegean Macedonia. This the first book published about Neret, which tells about Lefa’s childhood in the village and how she, along with thousands of other Macedonian children, was evacuated during the Macedonian War of Independence in Aegean Macedonia (Greek Civil War from 1947 – 49)
Lefa became a child refugee and grew up far from her family in Hungary, and finally re-joined her parents in Australia, where she was able to build a new life.