Newspapers on the Walls of Prisons and Camps. From the Archive of the Central Council of EPON

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Author/s: 
Olympitou, Evdokia
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"Gia tis efhmerides toihou ton filakon kai ton kataskinoseon. Apo to archeio tou Kentrikou Symvouliou tis EPON"
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Magazine Article
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20th
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"A large part of the archival […] material of the EPON [United Panhellenic Organization of Youth] Central Council consists of EPON’s periodical publications, as well as those of other organizations of the period (221 titles have been recorded). These publications, which present great variety in terms of their duration and periodicity, cover almost all of Greece.

Among them is a special category consisting of the “handwritten wall newspapers in jails and camps”, which have one common feature: they were intended to be posted on the wall. Their form itself was what led us to describe them as wall newspapers, because they are all relatively large in size, and their texts occupy just one side of the paper […]. It appears that, in places where large numbers of people co-exist, such as prisons and camps, the wall newspaper was the most accessible and effective written means of providing information, propagating ideas and communication.

[…] They were all made in 1945 – at least those that have been preserved in the archive – and more precisely, in the second half of the year: the prison newspapers from June to December, while those of the camps are from July to October of the same year, when these [children’s] camps were functioning […].” (p. 38-39)