Date of birth: 21 May 1929 Place of birth: Skepasto, province of Thessaloniki, Macedonia Arrived in Australia: 3 July 1969 Occupation: Factory Worker My village is small but very beautiful. It is situated next to a mountain and has a large valley. In the spring time we used to go to the mountain and admire […]
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Mihno Mourtoulakis (b. 1927 Skepasto, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date of birth: 23 March 1927 Place of birth: Skepasto, province of Thessaloniki, Macedonia Arrived in Australia: 7 October 1966 Occupation: Factory Worker I was born in the village of Skepasto, in the province of Thessaloniki. Our village is a very small village. It had about 150 houses then. It’s at the foot of the […]
Con Rontos (b. 1925, Skala, Italy)
Date of birth: 22 December 1925 Place of birth: Skala, Peloponnese Arrived in Australia: 17 February 1956 Occupation: Baker and Factory Worker I completed primary school in 1938. Our parents had no intention of sending us to secondary school, but neither did we, the children, want to go. We also had the odd idea that […]
Sophia Nikitarakos (b. 1924, Patra, Peloponnesos, Greece)
Date of birth: 6 December 1924 Place of birth: Patra, Peloponnesos Arrived in Australia: 25 September 1954 Occupation: Dressmaker and Factory Owner I was born in Patra. My childhood years were very happy because we were a very close family. We made a living from our property. At Easter, for one season only, we cultivated […]
Effie Salpingidis (b. 1946, Sphendami, province of Ekaterini, Macedonia, Greece)
Date of birth: 21 January 1946 Place of birth: Sphendami, province of Ekaterini, Macedonia Arrived in Australia: 21 January 1969 Occupation: Factory Worker My village is quite big. It had 300 houses, but I don’t know about the number of citizens it has now. It has a big church which is near my house. My […]
Andrea Kyriakou (b. 1918, Kalavasos, Cyprus, Greece)
Date of birth: 16 November 1918 Place of birth: Kalavasos, Cyprus Arrived in Australia: 16 July 1951 Occupation: Factory worker I was born in Cyprus in the village of Kalavasos. My village is big compared to the other villages of the region. When I left the village, the population was almost 1,520 people. It is […]
Harry Polites (b. 1906, Vasiliki, Lefkas, Greece)
Date of birth: 8 March 1906 Place of birth: Vasiliki, island of Lefkas Arrived in Australia: 17 November 1926 Occupation: Shopowner Our history in Australia goes a long way back. Some years after my mother’s death, my father decided to come to Australia. He arrived in 1923. He was in his mid-forties. I came aboard […]
Harry Pantelis (b. 1904, Kalimnos, Greece)
Date of birth: 27 July 1904 Place of birth: Island of Kalimnos, Aegean Islands Arrived in Australia: 16 October 1924 Occupation: Shopkeeper, Cook. There were three brothers in my family in Greece. One of my brothers, who was in France during the war, was wounded and died. Later, in 1920, my other brother came to […]