Item GDA27/AV57 - Recordings relating to Greek and Greek Cypriot migrants in New Jersey, USA, 1994

Videotape recordings including:

Footage from a religious service at a Greek Orthodox Church and a Greek language teaching session at a Greek school, New Jersey (duration: 9 mins). In Greek and English.

Interview with second generation Greek American John Gacos (born in 1925, his family originally from the Mani and Agathoupoli regions, Greece) on topics including: his family background and history; early life in the USA and Greece, family business in the USA; his service in the US Navy; his career in insurance; his involvement with the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church and the Greek Orthodox Youth of America; the preservation of the Greek language and culture in diaspora (duration: 45 mins). In Greek and English.

Part of interview with first generation Greek Cypriot migrant Dr Christopher Christodoulou (born in Cairo, Egypt, 1920, migrated to the USA in 1947) on topics including: his early life in Cairo; cosmopolitan and multilingual Suez;, his theology studies at the Patriarchate of Alexandria and the University of Athens; conditions in Greece during World War Two; his experiences as a prisoner of war (duration: 35 mins). In Greek.

See also GDA15/2