Whatever happened to the warship ELLI? [Greek Audio]

The bronze parts were sold, the bridge was torn to pieces, the gunpowder has become fireworks for children… Zannakis Kalamaras recounts what happened to the wreck of the ELLI, which was torpedoed on Tinos by an Italian submarine on August 15, 1940.

Narrator: Zannakis Kalamaras
Interview by Stavros Vlachos
Podcast creation: Stavros Vlachos
Sound designer: Dimitris Paleogiannis
Sound editor: Dimitris Papadakis
Photos by Alexandros Papathanassopoulos

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.