Thomas Sideris

One year after the Pylos boat disaster, one of the deadliest migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, “Unguraded Passage” hosts Lefteris Papagiannakis, director of the Hellenic Council for Refugees, in the studio of Voice of Greece. The peak of migration flows in the previous decade, European pol...

A group of German antifascists, “AK Distomo”, coming to Greece and standing next to the relatives of the victims of Distomo. A lawyer, Miltiadis Sfountouris, son of survivor Eleni Sfountouri, who tries to shed light on hidden and dark aspects of the Nazi crime in Distomo. A survivor, who...

Two brothers from Australia come to Rethymnon, Crete, to pay tribute to their late father, who died as a soldier in the Battle of Crete. A 7.5-year-old boy who watched his mother, his grandmother, his aunt, and two other women being executed. ERT’s crew records unknown stories from the Battle o...

ERT journalist Thomas Sideris presents a radio documentary of a total duration of 55 minutes, about the daring plan of two young students to take down the swastika from the Acropolis on the evening of May 30, 1941, almost a month after the surrender of Athens to the Nazis. The documentary...

The untrodden mountains of Crete became the pockets of resistance of the people against the conquerors during World War ΙΙ, from Myrtos, Vorizia, Damasta, Anogia to Sfakia. The Cretans proved in practice that the struggle to defend freedom is a matter for everyone, children, adults, elderly, men and w...

The trek begins on September 15, 1943 in the village of Myrtos when the German officer declares to the president of the village that the village will burn and gives a deadline of two hours for the residents to take what they can and leave. On the same day as the destruction of Myrtos, the conquerors enter the village of Gdohia, after previously arresting and executing on the spot in various places twelve villagers from Gdohia and Kato Symi, including three women and a six-month-old baby.

On Friday, April 26th, Voice of Greece and Thomas Sideris continue the journey to the martyred villages of Crete, documenting the chronicle of the Battle of Crete in May and June 1941, as well as all the events that followed in the following years, during the Nazi occupation. The...

Voice of Greece and Thomas Sideris continue the journey to the martyred villages of Crete and present a radio documentary about the Viannos massacres, one of the largest massacres of civilians on Greek soil by the regular army of Nazi Germany. The holocaust of the villages of Viannos province in...

Thomas Sideris travels to Crete, the prefectures of Heraklion, Rethymno and Chania, searches for eyewitnesses and tries to document the chronicle of the Battle of Crete in May and June 1941, as well as all the events that followed in the following years, during the Nazi occupation. Through the narrations...

Thomas Sideris travels to Crete, the prefectures of Heraklion, Rethymno and Chania, searches for eyewitnesses and tries to document the chronicle of the Battle of Crete in May and June 1941, as well as all the events that followed in the following years, during the Nazi occupation. Through the narrations...

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) ...