Living their Dreams
Family Stories
In tribute to our immigrant ancestors, we will gather your family stories and publish them in a special book entitled "Tribute." The book will be given to all Gabby Award attendees and will be available for broad international distribution. Share your family's story in the book by making a donation to the Greek America Foundation.
The Christ Pappas Family
My paternal grandfather-- Michael Papadomanolakis-- had emigrated to America in the late 1890s as a single man. He found fellowship with fellow ...
Eva Kyriazis Antholis
Mom was born in the Arcadia region of Greece. Her father was killed by Nazi collaborators during WWII, and she immigrated to the United States in ...
Who We Were
I am the last left of the five of us. Bill, Tony, Peter, and Kanella all lived long and left beautiful sons and daughters, grandchildren, great ...
The Panos Dukakis-Euterpe Boukis Family
There is an old saying that if you want to live a long life, pick your parents carefully. Fortunately, I did, but my mother and father did more ...
A lifetime filled with love, value and culture
In 1933, my father was born in Argos, Greece. He was raised during an era of turmoil, economic depression and infrastructure collapse...
Ariadne Skotadi (Kiriacoules) Coules
Panagiota Skotadi lost not one husband, but two. She was left a young widow to raise four children alone...
My American Dream
As the ship slowly entered New York Harbor and approached Ellis Island, the mist cleared and before us stood the “big lady with the light"...
The Haralambides Family
My grandmother, Angeliki Rizou, was born to a wealthy family that owned inns located in Brusa, Asia Minor...
Anthoula (Dontas) Rallis
I wish that I knew my grandmother, Anthoula (Dontas) Rallis. My family says that she was a woman, like many other Greek women...
George Perdikaris
This Tribute is about our father George Perdikaris who left the village of Kalamitisi, Lefkada, to come to America for an education...
Tribute to Victor, John and Katina Kreatsoulas (siblings)
My earliest memories are of the old San Francisco Victorian in which I spent my childhood. Uncle Victor owned the house and lived on the main floor...
Nicholas Louis Pahountis
Nicholas Louis Pahountis (Dad) was born on the Island of Karpathos, Dodekanesos, Greece in 1927...
The Family of Ernie Anastos
Grandfather, Reverend Anastasios Anastasiou was born high atop a mountainside overlooking the Aegean Sea in the small northern village of Karitsa...
William Kostas Andriotis
William Andriotis was at the center of his family, not at the top or to the side...
The Bapis Family
Michael Bapis left Agios Vasilios, Kinourios Greece for America in 1907 at age thirteen. Traveling to Utah for employment...
Angeliki Vardalos Demacopoulos
In l930, Angeliki Vardalos was born to Nicholas and Antonia Vardalos in Mostitsi, a small village outside of Kalavrita...
Christos Georgios X Konstantis
By its fruit, a tree is known … Christos, born on the island of Rhodes circa 1890 and named after his dead brother...
My Family Tribute
Both Great Grandfathers, Theodore Cambourakis and Nicholas Magriplis came to America through Ellis Island...
Tribute to my Grandparents
My Grandfather, Nick Kanakaredes was the first of our family to come through Ellis Island. His journey to America was a long awaited dream..
The Kantzavelos Family
Maria Krekoukis, pictured here as a young widow of 33 years of age following the death of her husband, Kleomenis Kossivas...
Kostas and Elefteria Drougas: A Transatlantic Love Story
He was in love from the moment he saw her. Elefteria Bassias stood in the sun on the deck of the Queen Frederica ship...
The Greeks of New York City
The story of the Greek immigrants in New York can be seen as the fulfillment of a dream...
Louis Fakelis
At age 20, Louis Fakelis – my maternal grandfather born in Pispilounta, Chios – joined the Greek army to fight in a civil war...
Antonios Taxakis
Sometime in January of 1890 in the village of Fourfouras, in the region known at Rethymnon on the island of Crete, Antonios Taxakis was born...
Tsaoussis Family
We begin my father’s journey in America at the end of his life’s journey...
Nick and Mary Mathews
In 2007, the Richmond Times Dispatch declared, “The best-known people in Yorktown, [Virginia] since the days of George Washington...
Fouroulis-Thomas
Eleni “Nitsa” Foroulis was born in 1929 in Volos, Greece to Andrea and Athena...
Zaferis-Sellas
Demetri Zaferis was born in 1881 to a large family in area of Ayios Yiannis where Astros is located...
Honoring Traditions
Evangelos Zervos and Maria Tsagaris; Marcos Madias and Kyriakoula Matheos...
