Thomas Sideris

Episode 7: Rudolf & IngeOn the seventh episode of the radio-documentary series ''Silent Tracks'' we follow a love story that begins in 1935 and is lost in the darkness of World War II. It is the story of Rudolf Kaufmann and Ingeborg Magnusson. He is Rudolf Kaufmann, is a German-Jewish man...

Episode 6: The children of Janusz Korczak The episode is dedicated to the greatest educator of the 20th century, the Polish-Jewish doctor, Janusz Korczak, who was killed in the Treblinka hellhole along with his children from the Warsaw ghetto. During the documentary, the shocking testimony...

Esther Cohen, in a heartbreaking narrative, describes the death march from her ancestral home town of Ioannina to Poland and the Auschwitz extermination camp. An important recording that adds to the already invaluable ERT Archive, which sheds light on unknown aspects of a once populous and thriving...

Episode 4: The story of Wladyslaw Szpilman (part 2) The episode is dedicated to Władysław (Władek) Szpilman, the master pianist who managed to survive initially inside the Warsaw Ghetto and then in the narrow periphery outside it throughout the war. ERT and Voice of Greece listeners will ha...

The episode is dedicated to Władysław (Władek) Szpilman, the master pianist who managed to survive initially inside the Warsaw Ghetto and then in the narrow periphery outside it throughout the war. ERT and Voice of Greece listeners will have the opportunity to hear Szpilman's shocking oral testimony re...

Episode 2: The Dark Room of Mauthausen Yona was the eldest of four children born to a working-class Jewish family. The family lived in the Jewish quarter of Pabianice. Yona's father sold merchandise to Polish shops. When the Poles could not pay him for his goods, they would give him food for...

Episode 1: The Invasion of Polland Listen to the first episode of the 14-part radio documentary series ”Silent tracks: The people behind the Holocaust”, based Thomas Sideris’ book by the same title. [with Greek Audio]The first radio documentary in the series, entitled "The Invasion of Poland, Autum...

A radio documentary about the infamous leader of the Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has been active on various war fronts for the past ten years and played a pivotal and dark role in the events following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in March 2022. Prigozhin's social rise and acquisition...

Unguarded Passage conveys the full atmosphere of August, by recollecting precious cinematic moments from films that are characteristically set in August, accompanied of course by the relevant soundtrack. Astrophysicist Fanis Smanis goes into details about this month’s c...

Unguarded Passage presents a radio documentary/travelelogue in Katowice, the city of coal.Thomas Sideris went on a journey Katowice in Silesia. Through oral testimonies, the episode recollects the grand miners’ strike at the Wujek coal mine, which was repressed by Jaruzelski's totalitarian regime. Produced b...

Marios Lolos was hosted in the studio of Voice of Greece, by Thomas Sideris, in the program "Unguarded Passage", in a radio documentary, dedicated to the photographer and former president of the Union of Greek Photographers. The photographer recalled in his memory fugitive images of people and events,...