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Interview of Manolis Grammatikakis by Maurice Born (1971)

Doctor Emmanuel Grammatikakis arrived on the island of Spinalonga in 1924. He was the chief (and only one) doctor and, at the same time, served as the island's director, judge and chief of police. He remained in office until 1952, that is, for 28 years. Towards the end of his service, he was appointed District Medical Officer (county doctor) and, for a time, held both posts.

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Interview of former patient Pavlakis by Maurice Born (1971-1973)

Pavlakis was a leper patient who was hospitalized at the Anti-leper Station of Agia Varvara in Athens, while initially, he had been hospitalized on the island of Spinalonga for about fifteen years.

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Epaminondas Remoundakis interview by Maurice Born (1971-1973)

E. Remoundakis, a patient with leprosy, initially lived for 21 years in the Leper Colony of Spinalonga and then in the Anti-leper Station of Agia Varvara in Athens.
1942 - Without thinking that the Italians prohibited the ringing of bells, E. Remoundakis rang the bells of the island's church to inform the locals that something severe was about to happen...

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Interview of the former Spinalonga leper patient Manolis Foundoulakis on the Kriti TV station.

Manolis Foundoulakis, a patient at the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Agia Varvara, Attica, learns from the Spinalonga residents the stories about their life on the islet and retells them.

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