Oral Stories

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GRIGORIS LIPIRIDIS

The following is a true story from the folkloric magazine “Pontian Forum”, Year 23 - Issue 92, October-December 2007, of Eyxinos Club of the city of Kozani, Greece. This article has been posted on our website unedited, and with the permission of Mr. K. Sanidis, publicists, Kozani, Greece. Professor Phufas of Erie Community College, Buffalo, […]

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VAHRAM KARABENT OF MARZIFON

Vahram Karabent of Merzifon, was an Armenian citizen from the Ottoman Empire born in the city of Merzifon in 1905. At the age of 10, Karabent witnessed the Ottoman Turkish deportation of the Armenians – four of his uncles, along with his Father and Grandfather were deported from their homes and never heard from again. […]

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A WOMAN FROM KERASOUNTA RECALLS

The following is one of a series of stories in “The Genocide in the Pontos and Its Women” written by Elsa Galanidou-Balfousia, in the folkloric magazine “Pontian Forum” of Eyxinos Club of the city of Kozani, Greece. Year 16 – Issue 16, October-December 2000. The article was translated by Professor Eleni Phufas of Erie Community […]

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THEA KEREKI

The article, Ή θεία Κερέκη, was translated by Professor Eleni Phufas of Erie Community College, Buffalo, NY. It is published here with the permission of the author of the book The Pontian Dream, Mr. H. I. Efraimidies, from Athens, Greece.   There still remain unanswered questions regarding the historical events of the Pontic Genocide, one of which is the issue […]

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CHRISTOS ILIADIS

This is a true story from the book “Brazier of Memory - Stories Forgotten even by God” written by the author George Andreadis. It has been edited by members of the Pontian Greek Society of Chicago and is published with the permission of the author. CHRISTOS ILIADIS I was born during 1911, in the village […]

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ELENA LAZARIDOU

From the stories of George Andreadis Stories of Orthodox Greeks who, appearing as Ottoman Muslims, kept their faith alive through two centuries of catacomb existence. For centuries, Pontus was isolated by its 700-mile chain of towering peaks and river-fed chasms, threaded with narrow muddy tracks on which, even now, it is easy to lose one’s […]