Genealogy of Afisian Refugees
The treasure of a museum is not only the old objects left behind by previous generations of people. For us, the real treasure of our Museum is all those who were born and walked in the lands of the old homeland of Avsa Adasi, a small island in the Sea of Marmara. The people who wrote its history until October 18, 1922. But also those who were born from the Afisian refugees and built a new homeland for us, in Sarti (Nea Afisia), with the hope that they, their children and the next generations without the fear of a new uprooting. To live free and happy! In a new homeland without ever forgetting the old …
Around them and the history of each one separately we decided to set up our museum. We owe it to those who left and to those who will come …
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For the sake of privacy, many updates and more information about living people are not accessible to this public database. At the premises of our Museum, the database is updated with all the information provided to us incessantly by the descendants of the refugees about the evolution of their families. This effort allowed us to bring in contact relatives of future generations …