My mum (Filio Kottakis) was 92. She was from the island of Samos, where she worked and helped as the firstborn to a family of seven, one of whom passed …

Our mum, Filio Kottakis (nee Hatzoglou), was born in 1932 in the village of Kontaika, on the island of Samos. She was the eldest of six siblings, shouldering the responsibilities …