Greece - Asia Minor

Greek refugees clamouring to escape Smyrna, September 1922. Κάπου μεσα στο πλήθος που προσπαθούσε να σωθεί ήταν και η μαμά μου 2 ετών τότε με την γιαγιά της Ευανθία ('εχασε τους γονείς της στήν καταστροφή). Ετσι κατατρεγμένοι απ όλους έφτασαν στην Ελλάδα (πρώτα στον Πειραιά) και μετά ξεκίνησε η ταλαιπωρία τους περιπλανώμενοι για 2 χρόνια μέχρι να φτάσουν τελικά στη Θεσσαλονίκη την φτωχομάννα.

The Greek and Armenian quarters of Smyrna burnt to the ground by Turkish forces in September 1922. The Turkish and Jewish quarters were spared

Refugees in Greece, 1922

Cosmopolitan Smyrna burns in the background as refugees desperately board boats to flee the massacre which ensued

The Greek businesses in Smyrna

Smyrna fire photo album

Σμύρνη, Smyrna 1920

Refugee children from Asia Minor in Greece

Convoy of Greek refugees in Asia Minor, 1922

Refugees from the interior of Asia Minor await to board ships at the port of Smyrna. It is worth noting there are only old men, women and children, all males between the ages of 15-60 having been sent into the interior and massacred. (August 1922).

Thessaloniki, Greece, spring of 1916. Starving children of Greek refugees from Eastern Macedonia, are offered a meal by the Greek army. The refugee flux had been produced by the invasion of neutral Greek Eastern Macedonia by the Bulgarian Armed forces waging war along with the Central Powers of WW I.

Greek soldiers marching through the arid plains of Asia Minor, c.1921

General views of Smyrna-The Turkish quarter of Smyrna, taken around the 1880s, but the above viewing inland, with Mount Pagus in the background and the second, looking in the opposite direction (photographer F. Firth). Bottom image (similar period, Bonfils) is around turn of century, clearly showing the barracks.

Refugees, Eastern Thrace 1922.

1922 πρόσφυγες

1922 Kavala Thrace Refugees From Greece Turkey War Sleep In Streets Press Photo