The surge in refugees arriving this summer has given 33-year-old George Tyrikos the chance to repay a 70-year-old family debt to the people of Syria, where his grandmother sought shelter during the Second World War.
For George Tyrikos, a 33-year-old butcher and science-fiction author turned volunteer, the surge in Syrian refugees arriving on the Greek island, Lesbos this summer has given him the chance to repay a 70-year-old family debt to the people of Syria. George’s grandmother Eleni was one of many people who fled to Syria from Lesbos in 1943.