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« It was something of a disgrace for a woman to cross the border with other people through the mountains, to leave secretly. Things like that are a disgrace to us. I who at that time wanted to be able to say that I was a decent man, it would have been a great disgrace then to have taken my wife to leave like that, walking through the bushes and that kind of thing. »
« We walked and we arrived there. We set out on foot, walking over the mountains three to four days, three days and three nights, and we arrived in Giannitsa. […] In Albania, okay, we weren’t very afraid. Here [in Greece] yes, we were very afraid. First, because we had been caught nine times. I can’t remember how many times we made the journey on foot. They caught us three or four times. They beat us a lot. I still have a scar here from when they beat me with a shoe. And it was my bad luck that he [policeman or soldier] hit me in the face. During the journey here, they beat us and threw us ten to fifteen meters distance. »
Gendered journeys
