The Historical Archive of Refugee Hellenism

The Historical Archive of Refugee Hellenism (HARH) began operating in 1994 as a Legal Entity under Public Law of the Municipality of Kalamaria. The primary mission of HARH is the study of the history and identity of refugee Hellenism and the preservation of the memory of the momentous event that resulted in the expulsion of the Christian population of Asia Minor in the aftermath of the Asia Minor catastrophe (1922) and the population exchange (1923-24). The archive also studies the history of the Greeks of Eastern Rumelia, Constantinople, the islands of Imbros and Tenedos, and the Greek Cypriot refugees after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. The collection regarding the immigration of Greeks to western Europe, North America, and Australia are very important, as well as those dealing with the arrival of Greek populations from the former Soviet Union and Albania after 1990.