George Maras

INTERVIWE DATE:

January 15, 2022

Interviewer:

Angelo Laskaris

language:

Greek

Speaker Background:

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INTERVIEW LOCATION:

Newmarket, ON

OCUPATION:

Cobbler

Interview Summary:

Interview Quotes

George Maras

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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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Historical Events

Migration

Greek Civil War

Post-WW2 Migration

WW2

Decades Referenced

1940s

1960s

1970s

2010s

Locations Referenced

Nemouta, Pyrgos, Patras, Lalas, Leros, Stouffville

Occupation(s)

Cobbler

Parents Occupation(s)

Names Referenced

[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

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Speaker Background:

INTERVIEW LOCATION:

OCUPATION:

Interview Summary:

Interview Quotes

George Maras

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Participants

George Maras

Intervieweer(s)

Angelo Laskaris

Date and Location

January 15, 2022

Newmarket, ON

Languages

Greek

Permalink

Project

Childhood Narratives of Greek Canadians from the 1940s

Reference ID

40SREF012

Categories

Historical Events

Migration

Tags

Greek Civil War

Post-WW2 Migration

WW2

Decades Referenced

1940s

1960s

1970s

2010s

Locations Referenced

Occupation(s)

Parents Occupation(s)

Names Referenced