SYDNEY — His home in Sydney’s high-end Chatswood suburb is a far cry from the ramshackle camp in Greece where his family had found refuge from the 1915 Turkish massacres and where he grew up, and he no longer goes hungry or unshod.
But Chris Dikian still bears the psychological scars of the battle for survival he waged as a youth during the Nazi occupation of that country. “Phix-Derghouty was a camp of mud brick shacks with tin roofs that housed mostly survivors of the massacres from various parts of Western Armenia,” he recalls. A line of red brick buildings stood at the edge of the camp, opposite a Bata shoe factory, with an empty field in between.
Read his full story at these news outlets
http://massispost.com/?s=dikian&x=0&y=0
http://hetq.am/eng/special/8320/selling-cigs-by-the-tramways-survival-in-nazi-occupied-greece.html
http://armeniantrends.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/genocide-armenien-vendre-des-cigarettes.html
Photo The tramways in Neos Kosmos
