Syndesmos

Vasilis Vasilas is a Sydney school teacher who has been actively archiving and publishing migrant stories in Sydney; his work cover stories from the respective Greek, Estonian, Ukrainian and Jewish communities in Australia. As a result, he has published ten books of personal narratives relating to these communities; for the Greek and Estonian books, he also included stories from New Zealand.

Vasilis also has an online archive, www.syndesmos.net, which he has archived the migrant details and photographs of over 900 migrants from the Greek island of Lesvos,, who went to Australia and New Zealand.

Another platform Vasilis publishes his stories in the Syndesmos Connecting People and their Stories Facebook page.

This YouTube channel is an extension of his work; with additional humour, Vasilis is trying to present people's stories in an alternative way.

A special note: the realisation of this YouTube channel could not have happened with Adam Pham's time, effort and dedication.