![Freedom was lurking at the corner [Greek Audio]](https://vog.ert.gr/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/istorima_ertecho-400x400.jpg)
An expatriate from Himare escapes from the oppressive everyday life of the Albanian regime, to face the inhospitable welcome in Greece that she so longed to come to know. Her love of all things Greek helps her overcome obstacles, but also brings her face to face with the Albanian police when she returns to Himare at a later date.
Narrator: Eleni Kokavesi
Researcher: Vasiliki Dimitropoulou
Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos
Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou
Sound Editing: Spyros Lymperopoulos
Video Director: Vasiliki Dimitropoulou
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.