06 January 2012

ΚΑΛΑΜΑΡΙΑ: Η ΠΡΩΤΕΥΟΥΣΑ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣΦΥΓΩΝ


Περιήγηση από τη σειρά «Η ΕΡΤ ΣΤΗ ΒΟΡΕΙΟ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ» στις προσφυγικές περιοχές της ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ. Παρουσιάζεται η ιστορία της εγκατάστασης των Ποντίων στην ΚΑΛΑΜΑΡΙΑ μέσα από προσωπικές μαρτυρίες προσφύγων και πλάνα από προσφυγικά σπίτια. Παρακολουθούμε, επίσης, πλάνα από παραδοσιακούς χορούς και περιηγούμαστε στην Αδερφότητα των Ποντίων. Πόντιοι πρόσφυγες αφηγούνται την προσωπική τους ιστορία και μιλούν για τις δυσκολίες εγκατάστασης και τα προβλήματα που αντιμετωπίζουν σήμερα.

Πηγη: Αρχείο ΕΡΤ

Δείτε επίσης: Αδελφότητα Κρωμναίων Καλαμαριάς

05 January 2012

Ο ΛΕΥΤΕΡΗΣ ΧΑΨΙΑΔΗΣ, "ΠΟΝΤΟΥ ΑΝΑΘΡΕΜΜΑΝ"











ΒΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ ΛΕΥΤΕΡΗ ΧΑΨΙΑΔΗ


Lefteris Hapsiadis (Λευτέρης Χαψιάδης, born October 23, 1953) is a distinguished contemporary Greek lyrics author, a poet and a writer of novels. In the last thirty years he has written various poems, three novels and also lyrics for 525 songs (registered with AEPI) in the contemporary Greek rebetika, laïka (pop music) and elafra (light music) genres. He has collaborated with various music composers, and has occasionally worked as a record producer. Among those, he has often worked with Christos Nikolopoulos with whom he has had a number of popular records (including Μία είναι η ουσία - One matter counts, and Κάποια, κάπου, κάποτε - Some woman, somewhere, sometime). Together they also created and produced a CD with 12 songs (December 1986), for which they were able to assemble together 11 popular Greek performers, including Giorgos Dalaras, Haris Alexiou, Stratos Dionysiou, Giannis Parios, and Manolis Mitsias. Nikolopoulos performed one of the songs in the CD as well, his first public singing performance ever. The CD was launched as "Τραγούδια για τους φίλους μου" - Songs for my friends. Other quite well known performers of Hapsiadis pop songs were Stelios Kazantzidis, Glykeria and Manolis Aggelopoulos.

Lefteris Hapsiadis was born in October 1953 in Feres, and lived during his early life in Koila, both agglomerations located in the Greek Prefecture (Νομός) of Evros. This is the most north-eastern region of Greece, bordering with Turkey in the east, and with Bulgaria in the north. Hapsiadis refers to Koila as his "Paradise on Earth", and nowadays he spends a major part of his life there. His family origin is from Pontos; this is the area in the north of present day Turkey, along its Black Sea coast. To this day Hapsiadis has been loyal to his Pontos origins and he has often collaborated in various artistic initiatives to preserve the cultural heritage of the land of his ancestors. An example includes the production of three CD records in the Pontos dialect, performed by Kazantzidis and Xrysanthos (an authentic Pontos singer), in the late eighties, early nineties . Hapsiadis is fairly knowledgeable of the Pontos Greek dialect that he learned from his parents and grandmother in Koila.
  
Songs for my friends
(Tracks of the CD Τραγούδια για τους φίλους μου)
by Nikolopoulos and Hapsiadis, 1986
  1. Μοιάζουμε (We resemble each other) with Manolis Mitsias
  2. Αν τέλειωνε η ζωή (If life ended) with Stratos Dionysiou
  3. Πως μπορεί (How is it possible) with Eleni Vitali
  4. Ετσι σ'αγάπησα (I loved you this way) with Dionysis Theodosis
  5. Φοβάμαι (I'm afraid) with Dimitra Galani
  6. Κάποια, κάπου, κάποτε (Some woman, somewhere, some time) with Giorgos Dalaras
  7. Καλύτερα ελεύθερος (Better be free) with Yannis Parios
  8. Το διαβολάκι (Little devil) with Haris Alexiou
  9. Τώρα που έφυγες (Now that you've gone away) with Litsa Diamanti
  10. Οι δρόμοι τής ανατολής (The streets of the East) with Christos Nikolopoulos
  11. Με χρώματα κι'αρώματα (With colors and odors) with Mary Vassou
  12. Οταν χορεύεις μάτια μου (When you're dancing, my love) with Manolis Aggelopoulos


For the entire biography of Mr. Hapsiadis, 
please visit the Wikipedia page 
from which this biogrαphy is taken:


16 November 2011

Lecture on Diplomat Fridtjof Nansen and Pontian Genocide in Astoria




Associate Professor of History at Haverford College, Alexander Kitroeff held a lecture in Astoria about the diplomat and humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen, who negotiated the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of refugees in Minor Asia.


This lecture was held in honor of Professor Harry Psomiadis, the initiator of the Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at Queens college. A few days after the death of Harry Psomiadis, his last book titled ‘Fridtjof Nansen and the Greek Refugee Crisis: 1922-1924′ was published.

Professor Kitroeff’s lecture was organized by the Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies in collaboration with the Federation of Greek Unions in New York, the Pan-pontian Federation of USA and Canada and two local Pontian Associations ‘Komninoi’ of New York and ‘Pontos’ of Norwalk Connecticut.

The talk of Kitroeff focused on the refugee crisis of Pontian and Minor Asia Greeks. Notably, the crisis of Pontian and Minor Asia Hellenism has several similarities to the Jewish Holocaust.

About Nansen

Dr. Fridtjof Nansen was born in Oslo, Norway, on 10 October 1861 and died on 30 May 1930. Through his achievements as explorer, scientist, diplomat, international senior servant, humanitarian and Nobel Laureate he won international recognition.

In 1921 Dr. Nansen was appointed as the very first High Commissioner of Refugees (1921-1930) of the League of Nations. One of Nansen’s most crowning achievements as High Commissioner of Refugees was his role in the succor and settlement of well over one million destitute Greek refugees during the period 1922-1924.

Original Post on USAGreek Reporter.com



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