[Greek Audio]
Growing up in a large family in Meteora, Maro Theodorou has only one thing on her mind: to become a sculptor and ceramist. Step by step, with perseverance and without any financial support, she manages to study, go to Fine Arts on her own and start her own workshop, even before she turns thirty. Then, she learns that she has lymphoma. She decides to continue doing what she has been doing all her life: not to give up.
Narrator: Maro Theodorou
Researcher: Stella Siomou
Podcast Creation: Fenia Chala
Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou
Sound Editing: Manolis Lianis
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.