Documentaries

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...

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...

Maurice Gormezano was seventeen years old when the Nazis began deporting Greek Jews to concentration camps. He and his family try to escape by hiding for years in the attic crawl space of a house in the northern suburb of Psichiko. Interviewee: Maurice GormezanoInterview by: Tryphon KlisProducer:...

Vasilis Pisimisis has been working in the market of Piraeus since he was fourteen years old and knows Troumba as few do. He has been systematically researching it, gathering the fascinating stories of the women and men who saw the legendary “red light” district with its cabarets as their own shelter or ...

Maurice Gormezano was seventeen years old when the Nazis began deporting Greek Jews to concentration camps. He and his family try to escape by hiding for years in the attic crawl space of a house in the northern suburb of Psichiko. Interviewee: Maurice GormezanoInterview by: Tryphon KlisProducer:...

Giannis Polyzos, a seafarer with a life filled with storms, adventures, and romance, was fated to spend his last voyage as a prisoner. Narrator: Giannis PolyzosResearcher: Evangelia TaktikouPodcast Creation: Andreas PappasSound Design: Giorgos RamantanisSound Editing: Nikolas...

Eva Melachrinou was a young child when the voices of the crowd, the rowdy noise of violence and the sound of the fire from September 1955 in Istanbul reached her bedroom. It was the beginning of a series of persecutions against the Greeks which led a group of classmates to make a promise. A promise...

During the massacres following the Greco-Turkish War of 1922, which resulted in the eradication of the Greek population in Anatolia, Stella Michalaki’s grandmother manages to save an icon of the Virgin Mary that continues to evoke memories of persecution. Interviewee: Stella MichalakiField R...

Istorima is the largest 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 ... Read more