We Were Children Then... Reminiscences of Asia Minor Refugees
On the 14th of September 1999, a Day for the Commemoration of the Genocide of the Asia Minot Hellenism, the documentary "We Were Children Then... Reminiscences of Asia Minor Refugees", a Foundation’s production, was presented to the public for the first time. The testimonies of 96 first generation refugees from, Aivali, Aidini, Smyrna, Vourla, Ephesus, Caesarea, Sparta in Pisidia and other regions in Asia Minor constituted the main body of the documentary. Among them the photographer Nellys (Nelly Saraidari) and the writers Dido Sotiriou, from Aidini, and Tasos Athanasiadis, from Salihli in Aidini and Manolis Megalooikonomou, who photographed the "Peace Agreement" between Eleftherios Venizelos and Kemal Ataturk.