Vasilios Diamantakos

GICREF085

Participants
Vasilios Diamantakos
Intervieweer(s)
Angelo Laskaris
Alexandros Balasis
Date and Location
April 11, 2024
Toronto, ON
Languages
Greek
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Project
Greeks in Canada: A Digital Public History
Reference ID
GICREF085
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Categories
Tags
Decades Referenced
Locations Referenced
Petrina (Laconia), Gytheio (Laconia), Krokee (Laconia), Mystras (Laconia), Athens, Toronto
Occupation(s)
Parents Occupation(s)
Names Referenced
Aristomenis Diamadakos (father), Athina Kapasouri (mother), John Chlorakos, Sarantos Kargakos (historian), Charles Brown / Konstantinos Apostolakos (Businessman), Luis Kourtis

[00:00:44] His family history and the outbreak of WW2

[00:04:43] Conscription of men from Petrina

[00:08:03] The Albanian Front and his father’s conscription

[00:16:08] The government in exile and occupation in Petrina

[00:22:40] Resistance, retaliations, and collaborators

[00:34:08] Leaving Petrina and encountering collaborationists

[00:43:05] Establishment of Petrina and the lack of water

[00:45:11] Returning to Petrina and the Mystras battle

[00:53:33] The killing of his father and Organization X

[01:10:43] School years, moving to Athens, and work in Petrina

[01:23:06] Charles Brown in Toronto and the mushroom farm

[01:32:25] His family and relation to Brown’s family

[01:48:50] Brown’s visit to Petrina and donations

[01:54:25] Brown as a sponsor and relation with his relatives

[02:01:24] The process, his migration in 1957, and the trip

[02:17:00] Reaching Toronto, finding a job as a dishwasher[

02:27:05] Petrina Brotherhood and Brown’s Villa

[02:31:45] His occupations, meeting his wife, and marriage