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We have a lot of ground to cover. I must ask you somewhat a relevant question to begin with.\nIs it true your nickname is the Golden Greek? It used to be. I think now it's more the Rusty Romanian. Oh, I was going to say, what about the Silver Greek? No, no, this is true.\nI think in my 60s someone nicknamed me the Golden Greek year it was over. And my mother was Romanian. And so we entered the period of the Rusty Romanian, the rusty incontinent Romanian.\nThere's a lovely photo of you with your family on the wall here in your chambers. And now that you've mentioned that your mother is Romanian, how did your parents meet? My grandfather... I go to Greece every two years to see my favourite relation, a cousin over there, who lived here until she was 18. Then she went on a cruise to Greece, married the purser, never returned.\nShe lives in a town called Mithoni. And I went to... She went to the bank one day. And the bank manager said it was one of her maiden names.\nAnd she said Heliotis. And he said, oh, that's a coincidence. The mayor's wife's grandfather was also named Heliotis.\nYou know, her maiden name's Heliotis. So to cut it short, it turned out that the mayor's wife's grandfather and our grandfather were brothers. And that enabled her and subsequently me when I went over there to go and find the little village and the one-bedroom hut and piece together the story.\nIt was a picture of two brothers, orphaned. One is 16 or 15, the other's a year younger. And one of them, the elder, decides there has to be more.\nAnd somehow he makes his way to Romania. He's got no money, but he heard that he has an uncle in Romania. So he makes his way to Romania, finds the uncle, learns from him how to make chocolate, and he makes handheld chocolates by night, puts them on a handcart and pushes it outside the Bank of Bucharest.\nSells them, goes back home, makes chocolates and sells and so on. By the time he dies, he's a multimillionaire with a four-story chocolate factory in what is now the heart of Bucharest. In fact, my cousin and I have got a claim against the Romanian government pending because we want compensation because the economists took it over after the war.\nAnd we've sort of been living off him ever since. The other brother stayed behind. As a consequence, I think one member of his family has been outside of Greece.\nHe had seven children. One of them didn't even make it to Athens. And there's a lovely photograph of him on the wall from back to the middle.\nIt's a little town called Charakas. He's 83. He's got a suit on, a collarless shirt, and he's got a little switch in his hand, and he's switching the donkey that's going round and round on the mill.\nAnd that was his existence. Now, why we didn't know about it, I've got no idea. My father got on very well with them.\nThere were letters that he had written to them that they showed me with photographs of me as a young boy. But for some reason, both he and his brother just decided to draw a line in the sand with the past. We don't know why.\nDo you think there was a quarrel? No, they never quarrelled. They got on very well. We'll never find out now, because everyone who knew is dead.\nBut I think maybe they just thought, well, that's the past and we're going on with the future. The factory was in Romania, the main factory. There was a subsidiary in Greece.\nDad met Mum there. Did your father get any flack for marrying a Romanian? No, no. Did some Greek villagers get married to someone who wasn't Greek? No, they were happy.\nShe came from a very wealthy family and Dad was fairly nouveau riche by then. And they settled there until the war came. I was actually started in Greece.\nThis is how wealthy they were. In the middle of a war, they were in Greece because Dad had to look at that factory. But I was born in Romania because my mum wanted to be with her mummy.\nWe were caught t","cbCaitpyHybe2CeI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitpyHybe2CeI","docx",81481,43,"English","# Interview transcript\n## Nickname origins\n## Family background and matchmaking story\n## Chocolate-making migration tale\n## Wartime escape and move to Australia","[{\"question\":\"How did Con Heliotis get the nickname “Golden Greek”?\",\"answer\":\"He says someone nicknamed him in his 60s, originally referring to him as the “Golden Greek,” after which the story shifted to “Rusty Romanian”.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the backstory connecting his family to Romania and Greece?\",\"answer\":\"He explains that his mother was Romanian and that family connections tied back through shared surnames and a relationship between brothers, which helped them piece together their history.\"},{\"question\":\"What happened to Con’s family during the war?\",\"answer\":\"They were caught in Romania, got out with short notice due to postwar communist pressure on wealthy families, went to Greece amid the civil war, and later decided to come to Australia.\"}]","Con Heliotis - The Golden Greek - Interview Transcript | DOCX",1788320797]