Christine Kertsanis and Second World War

soldier: I feel the pain of the war on my body, he said, as translated by his granddaughter Christine Kertsanis, according to Toronto Star. When he was just 26, Grachos went to Italy to fight Mussolini. But the Toronto centenarian says it his past life as a soldier, not old age, that brings pain. After the Second World War ended, he was forced to take up arms again, between 1946 and 1948, when Greece became embroiled in a Civil War. We’re way better today, it used to be war and famine, he said. The things he saw — German soldiers carting Greek Jews from their homes, soldiers starving and freezing in the mountains — haunt him still. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.