BOOKS ON GENOCIDE AND THE SMYRNA CATASTROPHE by Eleni Sakellis Published in The National Herald - October 5, 2019 ------------------------------ I am excited that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ During the month of September, events were held commemorating the Smyrna Catastrophe of 1922 and many scholars who gave presentations referred to various sources and books on the topic. For those who missed the presentations but would still like to learn more about the event that so dramatically affected the course of history not only in Greece, but worldwide, the following books are a good place to start.  Professor Ismini Lamb, Director of the Modern Greek Program in the Department of Classics at Georgetown University is currently working on a book about George Horton, the American diplomat best known for writing The B...

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...

----- THE JAPANESE AT SMYRNA:  TOKEI MARU, 1922 By Professor Dan Georgakas Published in The National Herald, August 4, 2018 ------------------------------ I am excited that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ A fascinating aspect of the Smyrna disaster of 1922 was the unanticipated appearance of a Japanese freighter that evacuated more than 800 Greeks and Armenians at a time when other nations would not. The name of the ship, its captain, and why it was in Smyrna that fatal first week of September has never been clarified. A critical historical breakthrough regarding the ship was made in the past decade by Stavros Stavridis. a frequent contributor to this newspaper. By examining the back issues of two Athenian newspapers, “Eleftheros Typos” (September 4, 2008) and “Impros,” (September 6), he found the name of the J...

Chios island, women in traditional dresses at a commemorative event for Greek war refugees fled to the island from across the Aegean after the Smyrna Catastrophe, Asia Minor 1922. Photograph and description posted on flickr.com by bilwander - September 2008

The following book is available for FREE on Archives.org ----- THE MARTYRDOM OF SMYRNA AND EASTERN CHRISTENDOM;  A File of Overwhelming Evidence, Denouncing the Misdeeds of the Turks in Asia Minor and showing their Responsibility for the Horrors of Smyrna Compiled and Prefaced by Dr. Lysimachos Oeconomos First published in 1922 ----- From the PREFACE Towards the middle of September last, news of an unprecedented horror, wired from the Levant, set the horizons on fire all over the world.  Christian Smyrna was ablaze !  The city had been entered by the Turks on Saturday morning, September 9th, and, only a few days later, on Wednesday afternoon, September 13th, after she had been given up meanwhile to looting, violation and massacre, Giaour Izmir was carried over to the stake of an unprecedented Martyrdom !  She burnt entirely in her beauty and strength, and the scene of her flames springing forth into the skies effaced the classica...