Istorima reversed series
Istorima series reversed
Vivi never met her grandfather, Giorgos, and her grandmother, Paraskevi. All he had heard was that they were lost in the wreck of the Atlantic Empress, in 1979. Growing up, Vivi realized that she knew almost nothing about her mother’s family, as she and other relatives were hesitant to talk about the unfortunate past of their two relatives. When she became a researcher at Istorima, Vivi managed to convince her grandmother’s sister, Chrysoula, and her mother’s sister, Angeliki, to talk about the accident: “And there, the story began to unfold…
Narrators: Chrysoula Giurga, Angeliki Paraskeva, Vivi Karaiskou
Researcher: Vivi Karaiskou
Podcast Creation: Charis Pagonidou
Sound Design: Dimitris Patsaros
Sound Editing: Spyros Lymperopoulos
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.