Greek-American Louis Metaxas Searching for Americanos in Asia Minor by Stavros T. Stavridis Published in The National Herald, March 2, 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.  ------------------------------ This brief article will explain the action of one Greek-American who wanted to learn the fate of his brother-in-law, who was detained as a prisoner of war in Asia Minor. It will also be shown that there is clear evidence in Greek official sources supporting the argument for the existence of detained Greek prisoners in Turkey despite Turkish press denials.  In 1929, Louis Metaxas, a resident of Greenfield, Massachusetts, inquired into the fate of his brother-in-law Panagiotis Americanos. Allen J. Treadway, a Congressman from Massachusetts, wrote to the State Department and Near East Relief (NER) s...

GREEK PRISONERS OF WAR IN TURKEY IN EARLY 1924 & THE INFAMOUS LABOR BATTALIONS By Stavros T. Stavridis Published in The National Herald, August 28, 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.  ------------------------------ At the end of the Greek-Turkish war in September,1922, the Kemalists detained Greek males aged 17-45 and deported them to work in the infamous labor battalions in the Anatolian interior. The vast majority of these were Anatolian Greeks and also captured Greek soldiers. These men suffered terribly at the hands of their Turkish captors with many of them perishing from thirst, disease, exhaustion, exposure, and beatings. The two Greek-American daily newspapers – Atlantis and National Herald – published an account of Greek prisoners of war and interned civilians detained in Turkey in J...