George Maras

40SREF012

Participants
George Maras
Intervieweer(s)
Angelo Laskaris
Date and Location
January 15, 2022
Newmarket, ON
Languages
Greek
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Project
Childhood Narratives of Greek Canadians from the 1940s
Reference ID
40SREF012
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Categories
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Decades Referenced
Locations Referenced
Nemouta, Pyrgos, Patras, Lalas, Leros, Stouffville
Occupation(s)
Cobbler
Parents Occupation(s)

[00:00:24] His family; his mother’s story

[00:03:08] German army in Nemouta and the Greek resistance

[00:07:12] The Greek political scene after the war

[00:13:35] Doctor Georgios Papaionnou and his daughter

[00:16:31] His arrest and Queen Frederica’s camps

[00:28:40] Being blackmailed by members of Organization X

[00:30:19] Arriving in Canada as a tourist

[00:31:45] The beginning of the war; the Albanian front

[00:36:30] The Italians; participating in EPON and EDA

[00:45:59] German retaliations and the Communists in Nemouta

[00:49:00] End of WW2 and the start of the Civil War

[00:51:26] The Democratic Army in Nemouta

[00:56:54] Life in the Queen’s Camps in 1949

[01:01:52] The evacuation of children from Northern Greece

[01:03:26] Description of Nemouta and food scarcity

[01:06:10] The 1940s and the Marathon Peace March

[01:12:47] Migration to Canada in 1969 as a shoemaker

[01:14:40] Impression of Canada; contemporary politics