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On the night of September 6, 1955, in Istanbul, Nikos Marousis can see the Turkish mob destroy the church in his neighborhood, amidst rapes and murders. Years later, in the course of his military service, he meets one of the culprits.
Narrator: Nikos Marousis
Researcher: Daphne Zachariadou
Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou
Sound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis
Photographs: Giorgos Demir
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.