Forgotten Heroes:  Greek-Americans Write Home By Peter S. Giakoumis Published in The National Herald July 17, 2021   The National Herald has given HellenicGenealogyG e ek.com permission to post articles that are of interest to our group --------------------------------------------  How did the Americanized Greeks get their story back to relatives and friends in the United States? How did we inherit intimate knowledge of the exploits of the forgotten heroes? The true answer runs contrary to a commonly held belief. Today we have first-hand accounts from the battlefields of the Balkans because Americanized Greeks wrote letters, thousands of them, to friends and family in the United States. Yes, they had the ability to read and write in Greek, and some could carry on conversations in English, with American accents of course. Others could actually read and write in English, perhaps not fluently, but well enough. The letters and post cards they sent often inclu...

  Literary Review THE GREEK GENOCIDE 1913-1923: NEW PERSPECTIVES Review written by Eleni Sakellis published in The National Herald February 8, 2020 The National Herald has given HellenicGenealogyGeek.com permission to post articles that are of interest to our group. -------------------------------------------- For those interested in the history of the Greek Genocide, the Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center, Inc. (AMPHRC) has published a new book, titled The Greek Genocide 1913-1923: New Perspectives, edited by George N. Shirinian. A valuable resource, the book includes the insights of contributors from various backgrounds on these pivotal ten years that changed the course of history for not only Greece, but for the entire world.  The deportation, mass killing, and ultimate expulsion of subjects of the Ottoman Empire of Greek ethnicity during the waning years of that empire and its transition to the Turkish Republic are well-documented, but perhaps not widely known....

Book  TRADITION IN THE FRAME:  Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete by Konstantinos Kalantzis Published by Indiana University Press, August 2019 Description: Sfakians on the island of Crete are known for their distinctive dress and appearance, fierce ruggedness, and devotion to traditional ways. Konstantinos Kalantzis explores how Sfakians live with the burdens and pleasures of maintaining these expectations of exoticism for themselves, for their fellow Greeks, and for tourists. Sfakian performance of masculine tradition has become even more meaningful for Greeks looking to reimagine their nation's global standing in the wake of stringent financial regulation, and for non-Greek tourists yearning for rootedness and escape from the post-industrial north. Through fine-grained ethnography that pays special attention to photography,  Tradition in the Frame  explores the ambivalence of a society expected to conform to outsiders' perception of th...

ADOPTION, MEMORY, AND COLD WAR GREECE:  Kid pro quo? by Gonda Van Steen Published November 2019 This book presents a committed quest to unravel and document the postwar adoption networks that placed more than 3,000 Greek children in the United States, in a movement accelerated by the aftermath of the Greek Civil War and by the new conditions of the global Cold War. Greek-to-American adoptions and, regrettably, also their transactions and transgressions, provided the blueprint for the first large-scale international adoptions, well before these became a mass phenomenon typically associated with Asian children. The story of these Greek postwar and Cold War adoptions, whose procedures ranged from legal to highly irregular, has never been told or analyzed before.  Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece  answers the important questions: How did these adoptions from Greece happen? Was there any money involved? Humanitarian rescue or  kid pro quo ? Or both? With s...

PROF. ZE'EVI TALKS TO TNH ABOUT THE 30-YEAR GENOCIDE Literary Review by Eleni Sakellis Published in The National Herald - May 11, 2019 (Note:  HGG has the permission of The National Herald to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.) FYI - I have included TABLE OF CONTENTS at end of article ----- The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 by Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi is a reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, and then the Turkish Republic, against their Christian minorities. Previous books have examined the genocides against the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks separately or focused only on the period of 1913-1923, but The ThirtyYear Genocide is the first account to show that the three were actually one intentional effort to rid Anatolia of its Christian population. This well researched book by Morris, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Middle Eastern St...

Book THE ARCADIANS OF AMERICA - History & Contribution Volume 2, IN THE LAND OF MY ANCESTORS by Petros I. Sarantakis Published by the PAN ARCADIAN FEDERATION OF AMERICA, 2018 ----- Note:  This volume is based on meticulous research.  Every village is included with details on contributions made, by those in the diaspora, to improve their homeland.  Many needed aquaducts to deliver fresh water directly to the village, donations to help orphans and provide poor women with dowries, build local churches and schools, etc. ----- For your reference I have included the CONTENTS and a list of the 1,573 NAMES included in the book.   ----- Note:  To purchase contact Anna Harisiadis Executive Secretary PFA Headquarters 880 N. York Rd. Elmhurst, IL 60126 630-833-1900 630-833-1956 fax ---------- CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PAN ARCADIAN HOSPITAL OF TRIPOLIS MANTINEIA GORTYNIA MEGALOPOLIS KYNOURIA ANNEX A...