Telling the stories of Post-war Cretan Female Migrants in New Zealand

An oral history and digital storytelling project

Telling the stories of Post-war Cretan Migrant Women in Aotearoa New Zealand

An oral history and digital storytelling project

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Australia NZ Cretan association, Greek/Cretan associations in NZ https://www.greek.org.nz/about-us/associations/ 

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New Zealand soldiers and people of Galatas, Crete https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/154/new-zealand-soldiers-and-people-of-galatas-crete

Anzacs in Crete-1941

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http://www.ggae.gr/frontoffice/portal.asp?cpage=NODE&cnode=1

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A New Zealand Cretan
war connection

A micro-study of Greek female immigrants to NZ in the 60s

by Associate Prof. Evangelia Papoutsaki