Journalist and author Vasilis Tzanakaris from Serres speaks about the heroine of his book, Amalia — a real person, a woman who experienced displacement, poverty and war. A woman from Smyrna who, through a harsh life journey stretching from the Asia Minor coast to interwar Athens and postwar Thessaloniki, reveals another, lesser-known side of Greek history.
Through Amalia’s life story, set in an era marked by intense criminality, the discussion focuses on the world of the streets, cramped rooms, silences and unseen people — places where history is written differently.
It was the era of the Greek version of “Bonnie and Clyde,” of the Athanasopoulos murder case that shocked public opinion. An era of para-state mechanisms seemingly lurking behind every dark act, with the assassinations of Grigoris Lambrakis and George Polk occupying some of the darkest pages of history.
Produced and presented by Stavroula Karali
Sound Engineering: Efi Georgopoulou