WA Parliament hosts discussion on book documenting legacy of George Devine Treloar

A treatment astatine the Parliament of Western Australia this week highlighted the relation of Australian soldier and humanitarian George Devine Treloar successful assisting refugees successful bluish Greece during the 1920s.

The event, hosted connected Tuesday 30 September by WA Legislative Council subordinate Maryka Groenewald, centred connected the publication Genocide to Regeneration: The Photographs of George Devine Treloar, co-authored by Professor David Treloar and Dr Panayiotis Diamadis.

The volume draws connected the photographic grounds of Colonel Treloar, who worked under the League of Nations successful Thrace and Macedonia pursuing the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

He is estimated to person helped much than 100,000 Greek, Armenian and Assyrian refugees displaced by struggle and persecution.

Professor Treloar, son of George Devine Treloar, shared accounts of his father’s alleviation work and explained however his camera became a tool to papers some regular survival and the rebuilding of shattered communities.

Dr Diamadis, who has conducted fieldwork successful bluish Greece, outlined however helium was capable to lucifer galore of Treloar’s photographs to specific locations, reconstructing cardinal parts of the humanitarian mission.

“This lawsuit is very special arsenic it is the archetypal clip the co-authors person presented our publication together, being physically contiguous successful the aforesaid place,” Dr Diamadis said.

Consul General of Greece successful Perth, Eleni Georgopoulou, and Ms Groenewald some paid tribute to Treloar’s legacy, noting his efforts stay mostly unknown successful Australia.

Copies of the publication were presented to the Consul General and Groenewald successful designation of their support.

Those successful attendance included:

Maryka Groenewald MLC

Candice Parsons, Electorate Officer, Office of the Hon. Maryka Groenewald MLC

Consul Eleni Georgopoulou and Kyriakos Tsoulis

Professor David Treloar and Helen Treloar

Dr Panayiotis Diamadis

Dr John Yiannakis, Curtin University

Harry Navrozidis, President, Pontian Brotherhood of WA

Nick Keskinidis, Vice-President, Pontian Brotherhood of WA

Nicholas Constantinou, President, Cretan Brotherhood of WA Inc

Theo Sarras, President, Hellenic Club of WA

Dr Elena Limnios, National Chair, Hellenic Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HACCI)

Georgios Tsitiridis, Chairman, Greek Language and Culture Institute

Paul Savva, CEO, Hellenic Community of WA Inc

Clare Zekas, Hellenic Community of WA Inc