1922 Μικρασιάτικη Καταστροφή

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The start of the fire seen from Bella Vista. 13.Sep.1922. 05 00 PM

Buildings on fire and rescue boats. 14.Sep.1922. 06 00 PM

Buildings on fire at the quay. 13-14.Sep.1922

Buildings on fire at the quay. 14.Sep.1922. 09 00 AM

A wide view of the city on fire 14.Sep.1922. 06 00 AM

The city in flames and observers

The city on fire. 14.Sep.1922. 05 00 AM

Buildings on fire and people trying to escape. 13-14.Sep.1922

Buildings on fire and rescue boats. 14.Sep.1922

The city on fire. 14.Sep.1922

Buildings on fire at the quay. 14.Sep.1922. 06 00 PM

The city taken by the fire

Buildings on fire and people trying to enter boats

Buildings of the quay in flames

The quay on fire from a distance

The city on fire and a close battleship

A Christian being hanged in Smyrna

A Christian woman and her child being deported

An Hellenic family killed by the Turks. Children and babies were equally treated

Christian families being deported

Christian men being deported to the interior of Asia Minor

Christians being deported to the desert

Christians being deported to the desert

Christians being deported

Christians forced by the Turks to march to the desert to die

Deportation of Christians

Elder and infants were massacred together

Hellenes from Pontos in a Turkish labour battalion. Few survived.

Hellenes of Asia Minor killed by the Turks

Hellenic families crying for their relatives

Hellenic refugees. A woman a small child who probably had a broken leg.

Hellenic refugees

Hellenic villagers from Kerasond Pontos massacred by the Turks

Part of the city of Afion Karahissar burned by the Kemalist forces

Persons of all ages were tortured and killed

Railroad pier in Smyrna where refugees embarked

Refugees from Smyrna

Remains of an Hellenic school in Pontos. Frontistirio Agios Georgios Argyroypolis.

Remains of an Hellenic school in Pontos. Frontistirio Palaias Argyroupolis.

Tents of Christians being deported

The Archbishop Chrysostomus. Tortured and killed by the Turks.

The church of Taxiarchis turned into a liquor storehouse

A boat full of refugees leaving Smyrna

The despair to escape makes a boat sink

The despair to escape makes a boat sink. Another view.

The same boat partially sunken

The ruins of the Aidinion Hospital

Turkish soldiers posing proudly with heads of their victims