The Smyrna Catastrophe
from Greek Like Me Hosted by Pamela Diotes Wood
What led up to the ethnic cleansing of Anatolia and the destruction of Türkiye’s most beautiful and ethnically diverse city, erasing Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians and Jews from the region for the first time in 2,500 years. Guest Helen Vardakis shares her family’s escape in 1922 from Kemal’s blueprint for genocide. Asia Minor of Our Heart.02 Photos Until August 1922 Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City 1922 The Destruction of Smyrna
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