My birth was the reason my father survived [Greek Audio]

In the summer of 1944, in Nice, while the local collaborators of the Germans carry out indiscriminate arrests and executions, the birth of a child saves the life of a resistance fighter. A short time later, at the Kokkinia roadblock, Greek traitors lead hundreds of patriots to their death.

Interviewee: Christos Kapalopoulos
Rerearcher: Margarita Koroneou
Podcast Creation: Andreas Pappas
Sound Designer: Dimitris Paleogiannis
Sound Editor: Dimitris Papadakis
Photos by Isidora Harbila

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.