About Us

The Hellenic Heritage Project exists to preserve the history of Greek immigration in a form that is accessible, visual, and rooted in lived experience. Too often, immigrant history is reduced to numbers or broad summaries. This project focuses on names, families, jobs, neighborhoods, and objects.

It is especially interested in the daily realities of immigrant life: entry through Ellis Island, the challenge of language and work, the importance of churches and kinship networks, and the economic roles that sustained families, including restaurants, diners, lunch wagons, hot dog carts, shoe repair, peddling, and small business ownership.

The project is designed to grow. While its first phase focuses on the United States, later phases may include Greek migration to Canada and Australia.