A primary-source refugee registration form filed by Eftyhia Lazarou Yannopoulou (Eftyhia, wife of Lazaros Yannopoulos) declaring properties lost in the 1922 Asia Minor catastrophe. The form is the Greek state’s standard “Απογραφή Προσφύγων” (Refugee Registration) declaration, covering refugees from the regional cluster of Soma, Kirkağaç, Yenikoy, Akhisar, and surroundings — the western Anatolian district of Magnesia (Sanjak of Magnesia).
What makes this document especially significant is that it is filed in Eftyhia’s own name, separately from her husband’s parallel declaration. The Jeannopoulos household pursued two parallel refugee compensation tracks: one for Lazaros’s Soma estate (filed in his name, ~14,000 lira → ~3,330 approved, recorded by the 1925 Refugee Compensation Committee determination + the October 1925 Soma Assessment Committee itemization), and a second for the combined Soma + Pergamos Karamitrou estate under Eftyhia’s name (this filing).
Properties declared by Eftyhia — ~22,350 lira
- 3 rooms in Soma: 1,500 lira
- 5 rooms in Pergamos: 2,500 lira
- 1 field at Axypto, 145 stremmata: 1,450 lira
- 1 field at Pasatzoi, 60 str: 1,200 lira
- 1 field at Kanagia, 40 str: 800 lira
- 1 field at Dastogia, 300 str: 3,000 lira
- 1 field at Kasogian, 24 str: 1,000 lira
- 1 island/grove at Kanisar, 100 str: 6,000 lira
- 1 vineyard at Kamopion, 150 str: 2,000 lira
- Multiple smaller plots
- 1 house in Pergamos: 600 lira
- A Pergamos garden + additional small Pergamos items: 300 lira each
- Total declared: ~22,350 lira
The dual filing — Soma estate under Lazaros and Soma + Pergamos under Eftyhia — was a deliberate strategy to capture the maximum compensation under the post-Lausanne Greek refugee system, which paid claims against the documented losses of each named family member separately. The Karamitrou-side Pergamon properties (Eftyhia’s father Sofianos Karamitrou’s lost Bergama estate) sit alongside her share in the marital Soma property on this single form.
Page 2 — Lazaros’s draft narrative
The reverse side of the form contains handwritten Greek accounting computations alongside narrative paragraphs in Lazaros’s hand, with references to years 1907, 1909–1914, and 1914 — the dates of pre-WWI Turkish persecutions of Asia Minor Greeks. These appear to be Lazaros’s draft supporting testimony for the refugee filings, recounting the family’s pre-1922 persecution history to substantiate the dispossession claim.
Why Eftyhia’s age on this form is 42, not 50
The form lists Eftyhia’s age as 42 — apparently in conflict with the December 1923 family Greek passport (#2555), which gave her age as 50. Three possible reconciliations remain open: (a) the form was filed earlier than the 1923 passport, when she was actually 42; (b) the “42” is a misread or clerical error on the form; (c) ages were systematically manipulated in the family’s documents — Eftyhia is independently documented (per family memory, May 2026) as having falsified her son John Lazare’s birth year by two years to keep him out of military conscription, so age manipulation is part of her documented pattern.
