Vasilios Moros

40SREF040

Participants
Vasilios Moros
Intervieweer(s)
Angelo Laskaris
Date and Location
March 1, 2023
Toronto, ON
Languages
Greek
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Project
Childhood Narratives of Greek Canadians from the 1940s
Reference ID
40SREF040
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Decades Referenced
Locations Referenced
Frousouna, Argolida, Tripoli, Patra, Preveza, Ioannina, Kalpaki, Pyrsoyianni, Gramos, Manitoba, Toronto, Finch Ave. and Yonge St. (Toronto)
Occupation(s)
Farmer, Typist
Parents Occupation(s)

[00:00:50] His school years and the call to serve the army

[00:06:22] Fleeing his village for Argos

[00:07:32] Serving in the army and the 1949 battles

[00:22:25] His transfer to intelligence; work as a typist

[00:24:36] October 28, 1940, and the Greco-Italian war

[00:27:30 ] His father's deployment to Evros in 1923

[00:29:14] The German arrival and the burning of his village

[00:34:30 ] The bombardment of Argos by the RAF

[00:36:47] Being part of EPON and the story of C. Petropoulos

[00:44:20] Being an EPON flag bearer

[00:46:00] Being declared a Greek resistance Veteran

[00:47:50 ] UNRRA relief

[00:50:00] “Communist mass killings”; Vrettakos

[00:54:22] Interactions between "leftitsts” & “rightists”

[00:59:00] The 1948-1949 operations during the Civil War

[01:02:19] Relatives in Manitoba, Canada since 1900

[01:07:10 ] Life in the villages of Gramos

[01:10:23] Sponsored migration to Canada in 1962 as farmer

[01:15:21] Reaching Canada by boat

[01:17:10] Germans and Italians during the war; the famine