Reflections on Primary Resource Material Research in Lahania, a Greek Village on the Island of Rhodes and Migration to Thebarton, Adelaide, South Australia. Part Two

摘要

The brief upsurge of positive contributions to Lahania in the mid-1920s by the Italiansudwas swept away by the Fascism that was imposed in the next decade. This impositionudaffected the daily lives of the villagers, their religion, language and management ofudtheir own affairs. Health conditions in the nineteen thirties deteriorated and deathsudincreased by fifty percent over the previous decade. At the same time the significantudtraditions of the village continued to suffer. Thirty six villagers moved to Australiaudbetween 1931 and 1940 — 22 males and 14 females — which added new types ofudmigration. (One of these men settled in the suburb of Thebarton, South Australia,udin 1938.) Also the Second World War came to the village along with two further butudbrief foreign occupations.