On November 26, 1985, Nikos Louridas was on board a riot police bus (MAT) that was hit by a bombing in Ilissia. The 17 November group claimed responsibility for the attack, describing it as “retaliation” for the murder of 15-year-old Michalis Kaltezas by a police officer in Exarchia.
Narrator: Nikos Louridas
Interviewer: Stavros Vlachos
Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos
Sound Design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis
Sound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis
Photographs: Stefanos Bertakis
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.