Series: The Occupation through the Eyes of Its Children
On the other side of the swamp, Sophia, Eleni, and Roxani—three girls of different ages—live in three different villages amphitheatrically surrounding Edessa. Growing up in places besieged by continuous and varied hostilities, each of them is wounded differently by the events of the Occupation, with two of the three suffering irreparably.
Narration: Roxani-Niki Spyridopoulou-Chrysoula, Sophia Stanisi, Eleni Michou, Christos Georgoudakis
Research-Interview: Ioanna Malliota, Christos Georgoudakis
Podcast Production: Christos Georgoudakis
Sound Design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis
Sound Editing: Spyros Lyberopoulos
Music: Myrto Nizami
Istorima is the biggest 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.