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Welcome, 77 artists, 40 different points of Attica welcomes you by singing Erotokritos an epic romance written at 1713 by Vitsentzos Kornaros

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Ellis Island: Thousands of GREEKS' First Sight of America

“At the New York Harbor they put us in quarantine for a day and then they took us to Ellis Island. There they treated us like sheep to examine us. “We were all frightened that they would not find us completely healthy and turn us back. My father called Ellis Island 'the island of tears and fear'.” These are the ...


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