My Family's Migration Story
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Who came first from Greece?
Suterios and Fioni Sacupenda great great grandfather and great grand aunt
Suterios came to work as a tailor, and his daughter would help him.
Photo by Nikos Niotis
Who came next from Greece?
Great grandfather, Athenasios kutis
Who came last from Greece?
Vaia and Spiro kutis, grandmother and grand uncle
Came together. We're very young, and the voyage was extra difficult for them because of their age. I interviewed Vaia, my grandmother.
Photo by Xristoforos aka Shooting Dog
When did they come?
Athenasios when he was 14. Returned after 17 years,
Came home due to a parent's death, and decided to stay when he had returned to Greece. Once he had made his decision to stay, he built himself a house, got married and had a child, Vaia. Spiro came along a few years later.
When did they come?
Fioni and suterios came in 1920's.
When did they come?
Vaia and Spiro on November 8, 1951. Vaia was 16, and Spiro was 13
They may have arrived on November 8th, but they had left Greece on October 28, in the same year.
Photo by Sarah Eskandarpour
WHERE?
Suterios and Fioni= came from Greece, came to US, unknown location. Presumably Ohio.
Athenasios= came from Greece, came to US, unknown location.
Vaia and Spiro= came from Greece, arrived in Rhode Island, then went to Ohio, then Jersey, and all over. And end up in Oregon.
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Why?
They Wouldn't have had education in Greece, because war left them with nothing.
My grandmother lived through two different occupations. A German one, and an Italian one. The Italian occupation of 1940 had left them with very little. But the German occupation came so soon afterwards, that they had so time to prepare themselves, or even recuperate. They survived the German occupation of 1941 with little more than the clothes on their backs. Their father sent them to the US hoping that they could have a better future there.
Photo by Alpat
Additional information: Vaia and Spiro
- Vaia now lives in Oregon, as does the entire family.
- This is because once Vaia got married, she and her husband sponsored the rest of the family to come.
Photo by Nikos Niotis
