Noula Kontozopoulos
INTERVIWE DATE:
February 12, 2023
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Interviewer:
Angelo Laskaris
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language:
Greek

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INTERVIEW LOCATION:
Toronto, ON
OCUPATION:
Seamstress

Interview Summary:

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Interview Quotes

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Noula Kontozopoulos

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Participants
Noula Kontozopoulos
Intervieweer(s)
Angelo Laskaris
Date and Location
February 12, 2023
Toronto, ON
Languages
Greek
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Project
Childhood Narratives of Greek Canadians from the 1940s
Reference ID
40SREF032
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Categories
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Decades Referenced
Locations Referenced
Kato Diminio, Kiato, Likoporia, Canada
Occupation(s)
Seamstress
Parents Occupation(s)
Oil Press Owner (Father), Hotel Owner (Father)
Names Referenced

[00:00:50] Her family’s businesses; the outbreak of war

[00:04:35] Her family being targeted by guerrilla fighters

[00:07:37] Her family helping those in need during the war

[00:13:51] Occupation army requisitioned family's property

[00:18:07] Finding lost Italian guns and gasoline barrels

[00:21:54] Describing her home and her family

[00:24:20] Her Italian neighbor in Kiato

[00:24:50] Her school years and UNRRA relief

[00:28:00] Civilian murders during the Civil War

[00:35:40] Germans using civilians to protect locomotives

[00:38:00] Trauma from the war and famine

[00:40:24] How her parents met and their marriage

[00:44:40] Describing Diminio & the miroloi (funeral lamentation)

[00:47:58] Meeting her husband and describing his family

[00:50:10] Relations with Asian Minor refugees

[00:55:55] Migrating to Canada; bringing her husband