Lazaros’s sworn self-affidavit, filed in New York City on November 29, 1937 — nine years after his naturalization, less than two years before his death. The document lays out the documentary core of his American identity: birthplace Soma, Asia Minor; SS Themistocles arrival March 18, 1924; New York naturalization on July 9, 1931 under Certificate #3421529. It is the keystone NY-side document of his Anatolia-to-America story, written and notarized in his own voice at age 66.
Less than two years later he would be dead.
