Individual stories of Greek immigrants β in their own words, or told by those who knew them.
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Between 1880 and 1924, more than 400,000 Greeks left their country for America. They did not leave because they wanted to. They leβ¦
β Greek Picture Brides of America, from Various regions of Greece
Thousands of young Greek women crossed the Atlantic in the early twentieth century to marry men they had never met, knowing them oβ¦