Oral history interview with Mr. Pano John Camichos at his home in Orlando, Florida, February 20, 2015.
Interview: Pano John Camichos
Interviewer: Jane Tracy
Date: February 20, 2015
Place: Home of Mr. Camichos in Orlando, Florida.
Pano John Camichos Oral History Interview Part III
Oral history interview with Mr. Pano John Camichos at his home in Orlando, Florida, February 20, 2015.
Interview: Pano John Camichos
Interviewer: Jane Tracy
Date: February 20, 2015
Place: Home of Mr. Camichos in Orlando, Florida.
Pano John Camichos Oral History Interview Part II
Oral history interview with Mr. Pano John Camichos at his home in Orlando, Florida, February 20, 2015.
Interview: Pano John Camichos
Interviewer: Jane Tracy
Date: February 20, 2015
Place: Home of Mr. Camichos in Orlando, Florida.
In the spring of 1946, a bare year after the end of World War Two in Europe, a Greek American living in Florida received a shocking letter from his brothers still living in Greece. John Camichos, restaurant owner, was horrified to learn of the conditions in his hometown of Volos, in Northeastern Greece. Letters received from his brothers George and Stavros Camichos, in early April 1946, described severe conditions in the city. Money was worthless, and food was badly needed. Italian and German troops had wrecked the waterfront installations around the bay, leaving boats stranded in the harbor, and the Nazis had prohibited small boats from launching off the beaches. George also wrote of the devastation left in the farming area of Volos by both the Italians, and Germans who killed livestock, burned crops, and destroyed roads. Upon reading these letters John Camichos feared villagers of Volos would die from starvation...
In the above excerpt from Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and HEPA: Post-War Relief, Lisa Camichos, the granddaughter of John Camichos, begins the details of Orlando's effort to save 60,000 villagers in Volos, Greece from starvation by a community food drive.
With the permission of Ms. Camichos the entire document is on Orlando Memory:
Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine by Lisa Catherine Camichos, A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School Of Western Carolina University, Summer 2000, Cullowhee, North Carolina.
READ Part I
Chapter 1 Greece in the 1940s: A Brief Overview
Chapter 2 Nazi Occupation and the Greek War Relief Association
Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and AHEPA: Post-War Relief
READ Part II
Chapter 4 The Truman Doctrine and Non-Governmental Aid: Comparisons in Relief Efforts
In the spring of 1946, a bare year after the end of World War Two in Europe, a Greek American living in Florida received a shocking letter from his brothers still living in Greece. John Camichos, restaurant owner, was horrified to learn of the conditions in his hometown of Volos, in Northeastern Greece. Letters received from his brothers George and Stavros Camichos, in early April 1946, described severe conditions in the city. Money was worthless, and food was badly needed. Italian and German troops had wrecked the waterfront installations around the bay, leaving boats stranded in the harbor, and the Nazis had prohibited small boats from launching off the beaches. George also wrote of the devastation left in the farming area of Volos by both the Italians, and Germans who killed livestock, burned crops, and destroyed roads. Upon reading these letters John Camichos feared villagers of Volos would die from starvation...
In the above excerpt from Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and HEPA: Post-War Relief, Lisa Camichos, the granddaughter of John Camichos, begins the details of Orlando's effort to save 60,000 villagers in Volos, Greece from starvation by a community food drive.
With the permission of Ms. Camichos the entire document is on Orlando Memory:
Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine by Lisa Catherine Camichos, A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School Of Western Carolina University, Summer 2000, Cullowhee, North Carolina.
READ Part I
Chapter 1 Greece in the 1940s: A Brief Overview
Chapter 2 Nazi Occupation and the Greek War Relief Association
Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and AHEPA: Post-War Relief
READ Part II
Chapter 4 The Truman Doctrine and Non-Governmental Aid: Comparisons in Relief Efforts
A record book listing contributions by Orlando Greek-American businessmen to the Greek War Relief Fund.
Entry includes name and contribution amount such as Harry Pappas - $100.00, Nick Serros - $100.00, etc.
The book is from the family archives of Orlando businessman John Camichos. VIEW.
Lisa Camichos, the granddaughter of John Camichos, discusses Greek War Relief in Chapter 2 of Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine by Lisa Catherine Camichos. VIEW.
Excerpt:
Within the written history of World War II famine in Greece is an overlooked tragedy in WWII. The sufferings endured by the Greek people at the hands of the Nazis are beyond the bounds of the imagination of those untouched by famine and death. Also within the history of WWII is a chapter of unprecedented kindness and concern. For even before the U.S. entered the war, and before the truth about the Nazi concentration camps reached American shores, a group of Greek-Americans, and Greek ex-patriots joined together to relieve the suffering of those trapped in Nazi occupied Greece...
Courtesy of the Camichos Family Archives
The Volos Relief Effort - 1946, a selection of archives on the communitywide effort made the people of Orlando to assist the people of Volos, Greece with food relief in 1946. VIEW.
Documents include a May 1, 1946 letter from Phil Doukas of Volos, Greece to Mr. Chiff Ceshion of Orlando, Florida.
Excerpt:
The Commerce Association of Volos, representing merchants, manufacturers, and foreign houses hereby instructed us to express to you their deepest gratitude for your philanthropic sympathies, trying to help our city's population, who have suffered so much from the army's occupation....
Courtesy of the Camichos Family Archives
A collection of photos and articles on Volos, Greece which appeared in the Orlando Sentinel in May, 1946.
When the Orlando Plan to collect food for Volos, Greece was first organized, Orlando Morning Sentinel instructed the Associated Press to send L.S. (Soc) Chakales, former Sentinel sports writer and a graduate of Rollins to see just what the need was. Chakales has been on the AP's staff in Greece for some time writing reports and taking photos.
Read the first report published on the front page of The Orlando Sentinel, Saturday, May 18, 1946.
Excerpt: Volos, Greece, [AP] Greece's fourth port and sea gateway to the rich Thessally plain, Volos today is virtually a ghost town haunted by hunger, unemployment, disease and under constant threat of an epidemic of malaria....
Listen as Pano John Camichos, talks about his father's life in Orlando, family in Volos: LISTEN Part I (17:30), and the Relief Effort to Volos: LISTEN PART II (12:48) in these excerpts from an oral history interview on February 20, 2015.
Lisa Camichos details Orlando's effort to save villagers in Volos, Greece from starvation by a community food drive in Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and HEPA: Post-War Relief from Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine. She begins chapter three with this description of her grandfather, John Camichos:
In the spring of 1946, a bare year after the end of World War Two in Europe, a Greek American living in Florida received a shocking letter from his brothers still living in Greece. John Camichos, restaurant owner, was horrified to learn of the conditions in his hometown of Volos, in Northeastern Greece. Letters received from his brothers George and Stavros Camichos, in early April 1946, described severe conditions in the city. Money was worthless, and food was badly needed. Italian and German troops had wrecked the waterfront installations around the bay, leaving boats stranded in the harbor, and the Nazis had prohibited small boats from launching off the beaches. George also wrote of the devastation left in the farming area of Volos by both the Italians, and Germans who killed livestock, burned crops, and destroyed roads. Upon reading these letters John Camichos feared villagers of Volos would die from starvation...
With the permission of Ms. Camichos her document is available on Orlando Memory:
Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine by Lisa Catherine Camichos, A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School Of Western Carolina University, Summer 2000, Cullowhee, North Carolina.
READ Part I
Chapter 1 Greece in the 1940s: A Brief Overview
Chapter 2 Nazi Occupation and the Greek War Relief Association
Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and AHEPA: Post-War Relief
READ Part II
Chapter 4 The Truman Doctrine and Non-Governmental Aid: Comparisons in Relief Efforts
Courtesy of the Camichos Family Archives
I think it is definitely established now that Greece is going to remain as a free and independent nation. She has been saved from Communist domination through the efforts of the United States. -Dwight Griswold, Chief, American Mission for Aid to Greece.
Read the report: "American Mission for Aid to Greece," in this copy of The Detroit Convention Special Issue, The AHEPAN, September-October 1948, vol. XXII, No. 5.
See also photo of AHEPA District Governor Nick Serros of Orlando, on page 23.
Listen as Pano John Camichos, talks about his father's life in Orlando, family in Volos: LISTEN Part I (17:30), and the Relief Effort to Volos: LISTEN PART II (12:48) in these excerpts from an oral history interview on February 20, 2015.
Lisa Camichos details Orlando's effort to save villagers in Volos, Greece from starvation by a community food drive in Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and HEPA: Post-War Relief from Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine. She begins chapter three with this description of her grandfather, John Camichos:
In the spring of 1946, a bare year after the end of World War Two in Europe, a Greek American living in Florida received a shocking letter from his brothers still living in Greece. John Camichos, restaurant owner, was horrified to learn of the conditions in his hometown of Volos, in Northeastern Greece. Letters received from his brothers George and Stavros Camichos, in early April 1946, described severe conditions in the city. Money was worthless, and food was badly needed. Italian and German troops had wrecked the waterfront installations around the bay, leaving boats stranded in the harbor, and the Nazis had prohibited small boats from launching off the beaches. George also wrote of the devastation left in the farming area of Volos by both the Italians, and Germans who killed livestock, burned crops, and destroyed roads. Upon reading these letters John Camichos feared villagers of Volos would die from starvation...
With the permission of Ms. Camichos her document is available on Orlando Memory:
Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine by Lisa Catherine Camichos, A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School Of Western Carolina University, Summer 2000, Cullowhee, North Carolina.
READ Part I
Chapter 1 Greece in the 1940s: A Brief Overview
Chapter 2 Nazi Occupation and the Greek War Relief Association
Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and AHEPA: Post-War Relief
READ Part II
Chapter 4 The Truman Doctrine and Non-Governmental Aid: Comparisons in Relief Efforts
Courtesy of the Camichos Family Archives
Letters, notes, telegrams to John Camichos, President Order of AHEPA, Orlando, from Volos, Greece and Washington, DC regarding assistance to Volos, Greece, 1945-1947.
Listen as Pano John Camichos, talks about his father's life in Orlando, family in Volos: LISTEN Part I (17:30), and the Relief Effort to Volos: LISTEN PART II (12:48) in these excerpts from an oral history interview on February 20, 2015.
Lisa Camichos details Orlando's effort to save villagers in Volos, Greece from starvation by a community food drive in Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and HEPA: Post-War Relief from Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine. She begins chapter three with this description of her grandfather, John Camichos:
In the spring of 1946, a bare year after the end of World War Two in Europe, a Greek American living in Florida received a shocking letter from his brothers still living in Greece. John Camichos, restaurant owner, was horrified to learn of the conditions in his hometown of Volos, in Northeastern Greece. Letters received from his brothers George and Stavros Camichos, in early April 1946, described severe conditions in the city. Money was worthless, and food was badly needed. Italian and German troops had wrecked the waterfront installations around the bay, leaving boats stranded in the harbor, and the Nazis had prohibited small boats from launching off the beaches. George also wrote of the devastation left in the farming area of Volos by both the Italians, and Germans who killed livestock, burned crops, and destroyed roads. Upon reading these letters John Camichos feared villagers of Volos would die from starvation...
With the permission of Ms. Camichos her document is available on Orlando Memory:
Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine by Lisa Catherine Camichos, A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School Of Western Carolina University, Summer 2000, Cullowhee, North Carolina.
READ Part I
Chapter 1 Greece in the 1940s: A Brief Overview
Chapter 2 Nazi Occupation and the Greek War Relief Association
Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and AHEPA: Post-War Relief
READ Part II
Chapter 4 The Truman Doctrine and Non-Governmental Aid: Comparisons in Relief Efforts
Courtesy of the Camichos Family Archives
Letters and photos to Mr. and Mrs. John Camichos, of Orlando, from Volos, Greece regarding assistance to Volos, Greece, 1946.
Listen as Pano John Camichos, talks about his father's life in Orlando, family in Volos: LISTEN Part I (17:30), and the Relief Effort to Volos: LISTEN PART II (12:48) in these excerpts from an oral history interview on February 20, 2015.
Lisa Camichos details Orlando's effort to save villagers in Volos, Greece from starvation by a community food drive in Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and HEPA: Post-War Relief from Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine. She begins chapter three with this description of her grandfather, John Camichos:
In the spring of 1946, a bare year after the end of World War Two in Europe, a Greek American living in Florida received a shocking letter from his brothers still living in Greece. John Camichos, restaurant owner, was horrified to learn of the conditions in his hometown of Volos, in Northeastern Greece. Letters received from his brothers George and Stavros Camichos, in early April 1946, described severe conditions in the city. Money was worthless, and food was badly needed. Italian and German troops had wrecked the waterfront installations around the bay, leaving boats stranded in the harbor, and the Nazis had prohibited small boats from launching off the beaches. George also wrote of the devastation left in the farming area of Volos by both the Italians, and Germans who killed livestock, burned crops, and destroyed roads. Upon reading these letters John Camichos feared villagers of Volos would die from starvation...
With the permission of Ms. Camichos her document is available on Orlando Memory:
Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine by Lisa Catherine Camichos, A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School Of Western Carolina University, Summer 2000, Cullowhee, North Carolina.
READ Part I
Chapter 1 Greece in the 1940s: A Brief Overview
Chapter 2 Nazi Occupation and the Greek War Relief Association
Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and AHEPA: Post-War Relief
READ Part II
Chapter 4 The Truman Doctrine and Non-Governmental Aid: Comparisons in Relief Efforts
Courtesy of the Camichos Family Archives
Letters to John Camichos, Southland Restaurant, Orlando, from Volos and Daytona Beach regarding assistance to Volos, Greece, 1946.
Listen as Pano John Camichos, talks about his father's life in Orlando, family in Volos: LISTEN Part I (17:30), and the Relief Effort to Volos: LISTEN PART II (12:48) in these excerpts from an oral history interview on February 20, 2015.
Lisa Camichos details Orlando's effort to save villagers in Volos, Greece from starvation by a community food drive in Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and HEPA: Post-War Relief from Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine. She begins chapter three with this description of her grandfather, John Camichos:
In the spring of 1946, a bare year after the end of World War Two in Europe, a Greek American living in Florida received a shocking letter from his brothers still living in Greece. John Camichos, restaurant owner, was horrified to learn of the conditions in his hometown of Volos, in Northeastern Greece. Letters received from his brothers George and Stavros Camichos, in early April 1946, described severe conditions in the city. Money was worthless, and food was badly needed. Italian and German troops had wrecked the waterfront installations around the bay, leaving boats stranded in the harbor, and the Nazis had prohibited small boats from launching off the beaches. George also wrote of the devastation left in the farming area of Volos by both the Italians, and Germans who killed livestock, burned crops, and destroyed roads. Upon reading these letters John Camichos feared villagers of Volos would die from starvation...
With the permission of Ms. Camichos her document is available on Orlando Memory:
Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine by Lisa Catherine Camichos, A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School Of Western Carolina University, Summer 2000, Cullowhee, North Carolina.
READ Part I
Chapter 1 Greece in the 1940s: A Brief Overview
Chapter 2 Nazi Occupation and the Greek War Relief Association
Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and AHEPA: Post-War Relief
READ Part II
Chapter 4 The Truman Doctrine and Non-Governmental Aid: Comparisons in Relief Efforts
Courtesy of the Camichos Family Archives
When the Orlando Plan to collect food for Volos, Greece was first organized, Orlando Morning Sentinel instructed the Associated Press to send L.S. (Soc) Chakales, former Sentinel sports writer and a graduate of Rollins to see just what the need was. Chakales worked on the AP's staff in Greece for some time writing reports and taking photos. VIEW photos from Volos, Greece.
Read the first report published on the front page of The Orlando Sentinel, Saturday, May 18, 1946.
Listen as Pano John Camichos, talks about his father's life in Orlando, family in Volos: LISTEN Part I (17:30), and the Relief Effort to Volos: LISTEN PART II (12:48) in these excerpts from an oral history interview on February 20, 2015.
Lisa Camichos details Orlando's effort to save villagers in Volos, Greece from starvation by a community food drive in Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and HEPA: Post-War Relief from Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine. She begins chapter three with this description of her grandfather, John Camichos:
In the spring of 1946, a bare year after the end of World War Two in Europe, a Greek American living in Florida received a shocking letter from his brothers still living in Greece. John Camichos, restaurant owner, was horrified to learn of the conditions in his hometown of Volos, in Northeastern Greece. Letters received from his brothers George and Stavros Camichos, in early April 1946, described severe conditions in the city. Money was worthless, and food was badly needed. Italian and German troops had wrecked the waterfront installations around the bay, leaving boats stranded in the harbor, and the Nazis had prohibited small boats from launching off the beaches. George also wrote of the devastation left in the farming area of Volos by both the Italians, and Germans who killed livestock, burned crops, and destroyed roads. Upon reading these letters John Camichos feared villagers of Volos would die from starvation...
With the permission of Ms. Camichos her document is available on Orlando Memory:
Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine by Lisa Catherine Camichos, A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School Of Western Carolina University, Summer 2000, Cullowhee, North Carolina.
READ Part I
Chapter 1 Greece in the 1940s: A Brief Overview
Chapter 2 Nazi Occupation and the Greek War Relief Association
Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and AHEPA: Post-War Relief
READ Part II
Chapter 4 The Truman Doctrine and Non-Governmental Aid: Comparisons in Relief Efforts
Courtesy of the Camichos Family Archives
When the Orlando Plan to collect food for Volos, Greece was first organized, Orlando Morning Sentinel instructed the Associated Press to send L.S. (Soc) Chakales, former Sentinel sports writer and a graduate of Rollins to see just what the need was. Chakales worked on the AP's staff in Greece for some time writing reports and taking photos. VIEW photos from Volos, Greece.
Read the first report published on the front page of The Orlando Sentinel, Saturday, May 18, 1946.
Listen as Pano John Camichos, talks about his father's life in Orlando, family in Volos: LISTEN Part I (17:30), and the Relief Effort to Volos: LISTEN PART II (12:48) in these excerpts from an oral history interview on February 20, 2015.
Lisa Camichos details Orlando's effort to save villagers in Volos, Greece from starvation by a community food drive in Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and HEPA: Post-War Relief from Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine. She begins chapter three with this description of her grandfather, John Camichos:
In the spring of 1946, a bare year after the end of World War Two in Europe, a Greek American living in Florida received a shocking letter from his brothers still living in Greece. John Camichos, restaurant owner, was horrified to learn of the conditions in his hometown of Volos, in Northeastern Greece. Letters received from his brothers George and Stavros Camichos, in early April 1946, described severe conditions in the city. Money was worthless, and food was badly needed. Italian and German troops had wrecked the waterfront installations around the bay, leaving boats stranded in the harbor, and the Nazis had prohibited small boats from launching off the beaches. George also wrote of the devastation left in the farming area of Volos by both the Italians, and Germans who killed livestock, burned crops, and destroyed roads. Upon reading these letters John Camichos feared villagers of Volos would die from starvation...
With the permission of Ms. Camichos her document is available on Orlando Memory:
Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine by Lisa Catherine Camichos, A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School Of Western Carolina University, Summer 2000, Cullowhee, North Carolina.
READ Part I
Chapter 1 Greece in the 1940s: A Brief Overview
Chapter 2 Nazi Occupation and the Greek War Relief Association
Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and AHEPA: Post-War Relief
READ Part II
Chapter 4 The Truman Doctrine and Non-Governmental Aid: Comparisons in Relief Efforts
Courtesy of the Camichos Family Archives
Collected letters, envelopes, and a Greek newspaper article on the Orlando relief effort for Volos, Greece, 1946, from John Camichos.
View photo of Mr. Camichos in the restaurant at a banquet organized for collecting relief for Volos.
Listen as Pano John Camichos, talks about his father's life in Orlando, family in Volos: LISTEN Part I (17:30), and the Relief Effort to Volos: LISTEN PART II (12:48) in these excerpts from an oral history interview on February 20, 2015.
Lisa Camichos details Orlando's effort to save villagers in Volos, Greece from starvation by a community food drive in Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and HEPA: Post-War Relief from Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine. She begins chapter three with this description of her grandfather, John Camichos:
In the spring of 1946, a bare year after the end of World War Two in Europe, a Greek American living in Florida received a shocking letter from his brothers still living in Greece. John Camichos, restaurant owner, was horrified to learn of the conditions in his hometown of Volos, in Northeastern Greece. Letters received from his brothers George and Stavros Camichos, in early April 1946, described severe conditions in the city. Money was worthless, and food was badly needed. Italian and German troops had wrecked the waterfront installations around the bay, leaving boats stranded in the harbor, and the Nazis had prohibited small boats from launching off the beaches. George also wrote of the devastation left in the farming area of Volos by both the Italians, and Germans who killed livestock, burned crops, and destroyed roads. Upon reading these letters John Camichos feared villagers of Volos would die from starvation...
With the permission of Ms. Camichos her document is available on Orlando Memory:
Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine by Lisa Catherine Camichos, A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School Of Western Carolina University, Summer 2000, Cullowhee, North Carolina.
READ Part I
Chapter 1 Greece in the 1940s: A Brief Overview
Chapter 2 Nazi Occupation and the Greek War Relief Association
Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and AHEPA: Post-War Relief
READ Part II
Chapter 4 The Truman Doctrine and Non-Governmental Aid: Comparisons in Relief Efforts
Courtesy of the Camichos Family Archives
Letters, envelopes, postcards, and Society of Friends brochures on the relief effort for Volos, Greece, 1946, from John Camichos.
View photo of Mr. Camichos in the restaurant at a banquet organized for collecting relief for Volos.
Listen as Pano John Camichos, talks about his father's life in Orlando, family in Volos: LISTEN Part I (17:30), and the Relief Effort to Volos: LISTEN PART II (12:48) in these excerpts from an oral history interview on February 20, 2015.
Lisa Camichos details Orlando's effort to save villagers in Volos, Greece from starvation by a community food drive in Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and HEPA: Post-War Relief from Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine. She begins chapter three with this description of her grandfather, John Camichos:
In the spring of 1946, a bare year after the end of World War Two in Europe, a Greek American living in Florida received a shocking letter from his brothers still living in Greece. John Camichos, restaurant owner, was horrified to learn of the conditions in his hometown of Volos, in Northeastern Greece. Letters received from his brothers George and Stavros Camichos, in early April 1946, described severe conditions in the city. Money was worthless, and food was badly needed. Italian and German troops had wrecked the waterfront installations around the bay, leaving boats stranded in the harbor, and the Nazis had prohibited small boats from launching off the beaches. George also wrote of the devastation left in the farming area of Volos by both the Italians, and Germans who killed livestock, burned crops, and destroyed roads. Upon reading these letters John Camichos feared villagers of Volos would die from starvation...
With the permission of Ms. Camichos her document is available on Orlando Memory:
Non-Governmental Relief to Greece: 1940-1949. A Comparative Study With The Truman Doctrine by Lisa Catherine Camichos, A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School Of Western Carolina University, Summer 2000, Cullowhee, North Carolina.
READ Part I
Chapter 1 Greece in the 1940s: A Brief Overview
Chapter 2 Nazi Occupation and the Greek War Relief Association
Chapter 3 The Orlando Plan and AHEPA: Post-War Relief
READ Part II
Chapter 4 The Truman Doctrine and Non-Governmental Aid: Comparisons in Relief Efforts
Courtesy of the Camichos Family Archives