Thomas Sideris

Small villages perched on the roots of rocks, but also head villages and towns that were full of life and became places of martyrdom and death during the fascist and Nazi era. People caught in the maelstrom of history, unable to define their present and future, who lived through the horror and absurdity...

Kanakis Geronimakis was born in 1926 in Vouvas, Sfakia and, as he says, he often brings to mind the world as it was before the war, but also during it. He was one of the oldest survivors of the Battle of Crete unfolding before their eyes. ERT journalist Thomas Sideris traveled to Sfakia and met Kanakis...

Kanakis Geronimakis was born in 1926 in Vouvas, Sfakia and, as he says, he often brings to mind the world as it was before the war, but also during it. He was one of the oldest survivors of the Battle of Crete unfolding before their eyes. ERT journalist Thomas Sideris traveled to Sfakia and met Kanakis...

The Kalamata blockade On the occasion of the bloody events in Kalamata on February 1944 and the execution of dozens of city residents by the Nazis (153 civilians have been identified to date), the Voice of Greece brings to light a journalistic and historical investigation of ERT journalists Ilias...

The third episode of the radio documentary series "Forgotten Villages" is dedicated to Kandanos, which will be broadcast on Friday, February 9th, 2024, from 13:00 to 14:00 by Voice of Greece. The main narrator of the radio documentary is Irini Kandaraki. During World War II, on June 3rd, 1941,...

Autumn 1941, in the village of Kormista in the prefecture of Serres. At dawn on the first day of October, a Bulgarian detachment with Nazi collaborators from Drama, after fraudulently rounding up villagers, separated the men from the women and children and, holding the latter hostage, led about 125...

The calendar shows October 17th, 1941. Friday at dawn.  At six o'clock in the morning two fully armed companies of German Nazis, together with the prisoners at Stavros of Kerdyllia, go up to the position of Stovolos and Livadia and encircle Ano Kerdylia and Kato Kerdylia. Two hours later,...

Των Ελλήνων οι Κοινότητες: Ραδιοφωνικά ντοκιμαντέρ για τη μετανάστευση των Ελλήνων τον προηγούμενο αιώναΚΥΚΛΟΣ 1οςΟΙ ΑΝΘΡΑΚΩΡΥΧΟΙ ΤΟΥ ΒΕΛΓΙΟΥΕπεισόδιο 4H οικογένεια του Χρήστου Αμυγδαλίτση στον Σταθμό Λαρίσης 'Ερευνα-τεκμηρίωση-παρουσίαση: Θωμάς Σίδερης, δημοσιογράφος ΕΡΤ/Δρ Ανθρωπογεωγραφίας) ...

Greek Communities: Radio documentaries on Greek immigration in the last century (Research-documentation-presentation: Thomas Sideris, journalist @ERT/Human Geography PhD) The children of Greek immigrants attended Belgian schools and, at the same time, attended Greek lessons in their mother...

Greek Communities: Radio documentaries on Greek immigration in the last century Episode 2 of "The Coal Miners of Belgium" season focuses on the accident in the town of Marcinelle, where one of Belgium's oldest and most coal-fired mines had been operating since the early 18th century. All Greek...

Των Ελλήνων οι Κοινότητες: Ραδιοφωνικά ντοκιμαντέρ για τη μετανάστευση των Ελλήνων τον προηγούμενο αιώνα ΚΥΚΛΟΣ 1οςΟΙ ΑΝΘΡΑΚΩΡΥΧΟΙ ΤΟΥ ΒΕΛΓΙΟΥ Επεισόδιο 1 Στο 1ο επεισόδιο γίνεται ειδική αναφορά στον εργοδοτικό μεσάζοντα Κόκκινο, στα «κοντράτα» (συμφωνίες) που υπέγραφαν οι υποψήφιοι ανθρακωρύχοι...

The 13th episode of the radio documentary series "Silent Tracks" is dedicated to the Roma Holocaust. This episode is based on both written sources and sound recordings. First of all unfolds the story of Otto Schmidt, who was deported in the summer of 1938 to the Buchenwald concentration camp...

Oral testimonies and narratives, diaries, handwritten notes. The anthropogeography of the Holocaust, through the traces of space and people. ”Silent tracks: The people behind the Holocaust”EPISODE 12: ”TREBLINKA”Utilizing the fundamental principles of Euclidean geometry, the Nazis created multipl...

Episode 11: "THE LAST FOOTBALL MATCH IN THIERESIENSTADT AND A 35 MM FILM" It was the most peculiar ghetto set up by the Nazis during World War II. Theresienstadt was a "State for artists". Musicians, actors, directors, authors, who were supposed to continue to create unhindered by the suffering of...

Episode 10 - “MR. AND MRS. HERMANN” Can there be humanity in the horror of war? Can two people in the context of Nazi madness offer crumbs of love? Can an avowed Nazi, serving Adolf Hitler, offer a fresh apple cake to a Czech-Jewish pianist? Can two children, a Jewish child and a child whose fat...

'Unguarded Passage' returns on Friday, November 17, at 13.00 pm (Athens Time), and presents a unique radio documentary titled THE RADIO TRANSMITTOR OF THE POLYTECHNIC. Original testimonies, heard for the first time in public, reveal the full plan for the creation of the Polytechnic radio station.  ...

Alice Herz-Sommer was the last survivor of the Theresienstadt ghetto, a few dozen miles outside Prague. Theresienstadt, although advertised by the Nazis to be a place where artists were shielded from war, was in fact a death center, in which many displaced people died from starvation and infectious...

Alice Herz-Sommer was the last survivor of the Theresienstadt ghetto, a few dozen miles outside Prague. Theresienstadt, although advertised by the Nazis to be a place where artists were shielded from war, was in fact a death center, in which many displaced people died from starvation and infectious...