We invite you to celebrate the New Year with a night of dinner and dancing at the Pancretan Village (Members Pavilion). Music and entertainment by Giorgos Psaroudakis (Lute) Giorgos Alexandonakis (Lyra) and Giorgos Stratakis (Lute) Doors open at 7:30pm til late, bookings are essential. Tickets are $90 per person and $60 for children...
Μετά από πρόσκληση της Παγκρήτιας Ένωσης Μελβούρνης – Αυστραλίας, αποστολή του Λαογραφικού Ομίλου «ΚΟΥΡΗΤΕΣ» αποτελούμενη από 24 μέλη, θα ταξιδέψει χιλιάδες χιλιόμετρα για να βρεθεί με τους Κρήτες της Μελβούρνης για να τιμήσει τους εορτασμούς για την 150η Επέτειο του Ολοκαυτώματος της Ιεράς Μονής Αρκαδίου. Η αντιπροσωπεία του Ομίλου με...
In the first parachute drop of World War II, the Germans invaded Crete on 20 May, 1941. Australian, New Zealand and British troops, alongside Greek soldiers and the people of Crete, formed a crucial bond as they defended the tiny island. A story that appeals to teens: prisoners of war,...
Commemorates the 69th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe when 8900 Anzac prisoners of war captured in Greece and Crete were released from captivity. In 2011 it will be exactly 70 years since the 2nd AIF arrived in the Middle East to begin their extraordinary adventures...
This compelling book combines details of the campaigns with an account of the response of Greeks and Cretans to the Allied forces on their soil. It reveals the personal relations that developed between Australian soldiers and Greek civilians and soldiers; these were sometimes hostile but in other cases developed into...
Every school child in Australia & New Zealand is bought up on the legend of the Anzacs. This, though, is the largely unknown story of another Anzac force which fought not at Gallipoli, but in Greece a generation later. On 12 April 1941, General Thomas Blamey, commander of the Australian...
Author Brian Taaffe has lived and worked in Australia for over 20 years. Taking a keen interest in the intertwined history of both his adopted country and his country of birth, New Zealand, he travelled to Greece and Crete to follow in the footsteps of the ANZACs during the Second...
The battle at Galatas during World War II is the story of ordinary New Zealanders achieving extraordinary things : first in defending the small Greek village against overwhelming German military might ; and second, when the territory was lost to the enemy, fighting a bloody, bayonet-style engagement in what has been...