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Melpomene

Person

Family name
Kaimasidis
Given name(s)
Melpomene
Gender
Female
Short description
Melpo Kaimasidis was born in 1937 in the village of Pentavryso in Kastoria, a prefecture of Macedonia, Greece to a large multi-lingual family originally from Samsounta in Pontos. She speaks Greek, Pontian and Turkish. As a young woman, she worked in the fur industry in Kastoria. In 1957, she migrated to Australia.