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Employee of the Vassilopoulo Frères & Co cotton ginning mill

eliam — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:52:11 +0000

The picture depicts a worker from Vassilopoulo Frères & Co cotton ginning mill sitting next to cotton sacks, in Beni Mazar El Cobra.

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The Vassilopoulos Frères & Co cotton ginning mill

eliam — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:52:03 +0000

The branch of the alexandrian company Vassilopoulos Frères & Co cotton ginning mill in Beni Mazar El Cobra, located in the Minya governorate, approximately 200 km south of Cairo.

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Young girl holding her dolls

eliam — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:32:00 +0000

The photograph was taken in June 1961 in Alexandria. The Andreadou family had decided to leave Egypt, after Nikolaos Andreadis’s decision to resign from his job as an accountant at the company “The Egyptian Cotton & Trading Co” and emigrate to Athens in April 1962. His employer, K. Salvagos, had arranged for Andreadis to find a position at Olympic Airways. A few months after her husband’s departure, Anna Eleftheriou packed their belongings and traveled with their two daughters to Athens on July 25, 1961. The photograph depicts Maria Andreadou at a young age, crying while holding the dolls she had to leave behind.

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Averofeio middle school students walking in the streets of Alexandria

eliam — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:03:30 +0000

The picture depicts a group of female students from Averofeio School walking in the streets of Alexandria after the end of their exams, on February 11, 1944. Pictured from left to right: Gamouridou, Tsagaiou, Benaki, Pappa, Chatzinikolaou, Eleftheriou.

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School trip to Abu Qir

eliam — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:42:28 +0000

Young students from Averofeio School posing for a photograph during a school trip to Abu Qir on 20 April 1944. Anna Eleftheriou is seated among them.

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Employees of the Vassilopoulos Frères & Co cotton ginning mill

eliam — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:32:01 +0000

The picture depicts two employees transporting cotton sacks in the branch of the company Vassilopoulos Frères & Co ginning mill in Beni Mazar El Cobra.

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Group photograph in the Vassilopoulos Frères & Co cotton ginning mill

eliam — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:16:41 +0000

The members of Eleftheriou and Mylona families are posing for a photograph sitting on cotton sacks, in the ginning mill of the company Vassilopoulos Frères & Co in Beni Mazar El Cobra. The picture depicts Dimitrios Eleftheriou along with his wife Maria Mylona, her sisters and their children.

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Wedding portrait

eliam — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:41:46 +0000

Portrait of the couple Anna (Eleftheriou) Andreadou and Nikolaos Andreadis taken after their wedding. The marriage ceremony took place at the Church of the Pammegiston Taxiarchon in Alexandria in January 1951. On the reverse, there is a handwritten dedication from the couple to Despina (sister of N. Andreadis) and her husband, Giorgos Papadopoulos, dated 28 January 1951.

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Picture of a young woman

eliam — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:17:27 +0000

The picture depicts Anna Eleftheriou in her youth.

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Picture of a young woman

eliam — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:11:18 +0000

The photograph depicts a friend of Anna Eleftheriou. Although the woman’s name is unknown, on the back of the photo there is a dedication to Anna Eleftheriou, written by the woman depicted, who signs as “Beba”.

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