Kallithraka, Matina

Title: Kallithraka, Matina
Family name: Kallithraka
Given name(s): Matina
Gender: Female
Short description: Matina was born in 1935 into a poor family in a Peloponnesian village near Tripoli and Sparta. As the family could not afford a dowry, Matina was sponsored by a distant relative called Yannis to come to Sydney. She married Yannis, a photographer, with whom she set up a photography business. Aside from raising a family, first in Redfern and then Kingsgrove, she was also a member of a women’s charity focusing on relief work for Greeks, both in Australia and in Greece.
Birth date: 1935
Country of birth: Australia

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