While the gangs of Chites terrorize the villages of Parnon, the parents of Maria Tselekis hide the mother and sister of two guerilla fighters in the barn of their house.
Narrator: Maria Tseleki
Researcher: Panagiotis Tselekis
Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Design: Nikolas Konstantinou
Photographs:m Giorgos Athanasiou
Music by William Ryan Fritch
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.