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The 100th Anniversary of the Catastrophe of Smyrna and the Legacy of Asia Minor
In September 2022, we commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the culmination of the Asia Minor Catastrophe with the burning of the great center of...
The Burning of Smyrna
By Very Reverend Archimandrite Nektarios Cottros, Presiding Priest of Saint George GOC, Piscataway, NJ
In 2007, the European Court of Human Rights concluded that...
The Centenary of a Disaster: Smyrna, 1922
By Professor Robert Zaller, Distinguished University Professor at Drexel at Drexel University
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Ottoman Turks was one of the great disasters of...
Remembering the 100th Anniversary of Asia Minor Catastrophe
Facts through World leaders and Sassos Family of Nea Iraklitsa
“I am in hearty sympathy with every just effort being made by the...
Book Explores How One Man’s Faith Triumphed Over the Greek Genocide in Asia Minor
Special to the Hellenic News of America
William Planes was surprised by how little his grandchildren knew about their grandparents.
So, he wrote a book.
“Platanides: Through...
Ghosts of Smyrna in Izmir By Alexander Billinis, Special to the Hellenic News of America
There is something about travel to our lost homelands that creates spectral yearnings in me. I have had the great fortune to visit and...
Why Should We Remember the Asia Minor Catastrophe?
by Catherine Tsounis
“A great man who has changed the lives of many is coming to the Stathakion,” said Michael Christodoulou, President of the Mytilene Society....