Embroidered cloth with metallic trim made by a Greek rescuer
Erini Kypreou, later Erini Varanga Kanelopoulos, was born on Milos Island in the Cyclades, located between mainland Greece and Crete. Her father was the island physician. At a young age, she married a merchant sea captain and moved to Alexandria, Egypt. She had a daughter Anna. In 1909, when Erini was seven months pregnant with her second daughter Pipina, her husband, 33, died of a heart attack in ...



