This publication includes the proceedings of the 2nd Scientific Conference organized by the Historical Archive of Refugee Hellenism, on September 30 – October 2, 2016. 

The purpose of the collective work was to highlight the multifaceted and interdisciplinary historical course of the Greek Orthodox community of Constantinople, which was excluded from the Population Exchange Treaty of 1923. 26 renowned, as well as younger scholars (historians, political scientists, jurists, pedagogues, teachers, philologists, writers, journalists) participated with their texts and six Constantinopolitans with the testimonies of their experiences, while the text of the admission belongs to the president of the Ecumenical Federation of Constantinople. 

The book includes the thematic sections: 1. After the exchange: continuities, intersections and discontinuities, 2. History through the faces, 3. Education in the Greek minority, 4. Under persecution: restrictive measures, September riots, deportations, 5. Installation and integration. A new homeland, 6. Memory and its reconstruction.