THE NHM LAUNCHES FREE ONLINE  COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES PORTAL published in The National Herald August 10, 2019 ----- To all our Hellenic Genealogy Geek members - This could make a huge difference when trying to communicate with relatives in Greece. -------------------------------------------- CHICAGO – Dedicated to holding significant memories of the Greek American experience and Hellenic legacy, the National Hellenic Museum (NHM) announced, on July 24 the launch of the NHM Collections & Archives Portal, which allows anyone to access the Museum’s catalogs online from anywhere by viewing digitized artifacts and archival materials.  With the largest collection of its kind in the world, including a rich repository of over 20,000 Greek-American artifacts, photos, historic newspapers, books, and an archive of over 450 recorded oral histories, the NHM serves as a resource at the center of the community’s past, present, and future.  Vis...

THE BURNING OF SMYRNA  with KAREN BATSHAW ----- Thursday, October 25, 2018 6:00 – 8:00 PM  National Hellenic Museum, 333 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60661 Telephone 312-655-1234 Register Online -  https://www.nationalhellenicmuseum.org/smyrna/?utm_source=Oct+18+Events&utm_campaign=NHM+October+18&utm_medium=email Non-Members: $15, NHM Members: $10, Students: $5  ---------- Karen Batshaw’s presentation will discuss the Burning of Smyrna, which once was a beautiful prosperous cosmopolitan city where Greek Orthodox Christians, Muslims, Armenians and Jews lived together in harmony. With this mind, she analyzes the events of September 1922, when the Turkish army descended upon the city and burned down the area that belonged to the Christians. In the harbor were over twenty war ships, belonging to the Great Powers: Britain, Italy, France, and the United States. The Christians erroneously thought they would be protected from the Turki...