# Pontus: A Family Account of a Mother Who Lost Her Eight Children

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2115916514331181392
- Source account: [@spirosthe1st](https://x.com/spirosthe1st)
- Source language: Greek
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:31
- Published: 2026-10-31
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SeDoyWymxbw5/en/pontus-a-family-account-of-a-mother-who-lost-her-eight-children) When they left Pontus, she had eight children.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SeDoyWymxbw5/en/pontus-a-family-account-of-a-mother-who-lost-her-eight-children?t=7) And on the road, as she was coming, they were stopped by those bandits, the Turks.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SeDoyWymxbw5/en/pontus-a-family-account-of-a-mother-who-lost-her-eight-children?t=15) And of the eight children…

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SeDoyWymxbw5/en/pontus-a-family-account-of-a-mother-who-lost-her-eight-children?t=22) I get emotional saying it, they take seven of the children, and my aunt says, “Please leave one child.”

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SeDoyWymxbw5/en/pontus-a-family-account-of-a-mother-who-lost-her-eight-children?t=32) And one of them gets down from his horse and takes the child, the two-year-old. The two-year— the eldest was twelve years old and the youngest was two.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SeDoyWymxbw5/en/pontus-a-family-account-of-a-mother-who-lost-her-eight-children?t=46) And in immense pain, she returned to Greece.

[0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SeDoyWymxbw5/en/pontus-a-family-account-of-a-mother-who-lost-her-eight-children?t=52) In those days, you know, we wrote letters to the Red Cross, hoping they might find any of her children.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SeDoyWymxbw5/en/pontus-a-family-account-of-a-mother-who-lost-her-eight-children?t=64) Sadly, she didn't find a single child. She died with the deepest, deepest grief that she had lost all eight of her children.

[1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SeDoyWymxbw5/en/pontus-a-family-account-of-a-mother-who-lost-her-eight-children?t=75) Can you tell me, were those children killed?

[1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SeDoyWymxbw5/en/pontus-a-family-account-of-a-mother-who-lost-her-eight-children?t=80) No, those children were Turkified. Sadly.

[1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SeDoyWymxbw5/en/pontus-a-family-account-of-a-mother-who-lost-her-eight-children?t=88) Perhaps they're still alive.