AMBASSADOR PANAGOPOULOS OF GREECE MET WITH GEORGE STROUMBOULIS IN WASHINGTON D.C.
FEATURE AT A GLANCE
Outlet: Save the Archives
Archive date: January 27, 2014
Publication date: January 24, 2014
Format: Meeting announcement and press release
Language: English
FEATURE SUMMARY
This announcement documents a Washington meeting between George Stroumboulis and Greek Ambassador Christos Panagopoulos about Save the Archives. The discussion centered on preserving Greek migration history and raising awareness across Greek communities in the United States. The preserved release places diplomatic support within the initiative’s wider effort to secure resources for digitizing vulnerable paper records.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
The meeting sought broader awareness of the preservation project in the United States.
The release describes proposed digitization and outreach efforts in their historical context.
FEATURE DETAILS
George Stroumboulis met with Greek Ambassador to the United States, Christos Panagopoulos, while in Washington D.C. to discuss the global initiative to save Greek migration history called Save The Archives.
The official meeting took place at the Greek Embassy with Ambassador Panagopoulos, George Stroumboulis, journalist Katerina Sokou and members of the press staff. To read the full release, see below:
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Washington D.C. – January 24, 2014 – Save The Archives is proud to announce that it has wrapped up a meeting with Ambassador Christos Panagopoulos at the official Embassy of Greece to the United States in Washington D.C. - resulting in stronger awareness for the international initiative working to preserve Greece’s migration history called SaveTheArchives.com.
The meeting took place on January 24, 2014 between the founder of Save The Archives, George Stroumboulis, and the Greek Ambassador to the United States, Christos Panagopoulos, along with senior press staff and Greek-American journalists. Discussing the importance of the Save The Archives movement, Mr. Stroumboulis shared with Ambassador Panagopoulos the details of the project, the need to raise awareness across Greek communities in the United States and the push to promote its efforts to individual associations and leaders within.
Save The Archives was launched over a year ago with the intent to raise the needed funds to help digitize the more than 200,000 entry archives of Greeks who migrated from Greece to the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe. Promoting the importance of preserving this important piece of history, Save The Archives has seen support coming in from around the world and from the diplomatic community, including the Canadian Ambassador to Greece, Robert Peck and the Australian Ambassador to Greece, Jenny Bloomfield. All the entry archives are temporarily housed in the basement of the IOM Athens.
Greek Ambassador Christos Panagopoulos met with George Stroumboulis in Washington D.C.
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