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Traditional ‘loukoumia’ producer Dina Sykoutri-Andreiomenou has made endless piles of loukoumia in her copper cauldrons through the years, ever since she was a little girl. And yet, every single stir echoes back the same thought: How she had to drop school against her will.
Interviewee: Dina Sykoutri-Andreiomenou Field Researcher: Justine Arvanitis Podcast Creation: Fenia Chala Sound Recording: Iasonas Theofanou Sound Editing: Minoas Koutenakis Photos: Christos Andropoulos
Istorima is the largest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could easily be lost in time. It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and Empower Youth (see more on www.snf.org). More than 20,000 stories are gradually being published in full on www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos, or written stories on www.istorima.org.