Andrea Philippou Matsis a modern odysseus
Ανδρέα Φιλίππου Μάτσης, ο σύγχρονος οδυσσέας Andreas Philippou Matsis the 18-year-old teenager left Palaichori, a small but beautiful village of Cyprus, for a better life in the distant New Zealand. As a real modern odysseus, Andreas arrived to New Zealand in May 1947. Ο νεαρός τότε Ανδρέας Φιλίππου Μάτσης 18 μόλις χρόνων, έφυγε από το Παλαιχώρι, το μικρό αλλά όμορφο χωριό του στην Κύπρο και ξεκίνησε για μια καλύτερη ζωή στη μακρινή Νέα Ζηλανδία. Ως πραγματικός σύγχρονος οδυσσέας, ο Ανδρέας έφθασε στη Νέα Ζηλανδία το Μάιο του 1947. World War II ravaged Europe. Left behind many wounds, dead (60 million), missing persons, ruined cities, refugees, displaced persons, orphaned children and generally very difficult living conditions. People were trying to rebuild their lives in dramatic poverty and humiliation.Postwar Europe, devastated from the war, continued to suffer poverty, starvation, and political unrest. 1945 was so difficult that it has been called Year Zero. In 1947, many cities w...