A German bombardment through the eyes of a child [English voice over] | Sunday 19 February 2023

In 1943, the young Nikos Davanos sees his house and town destroyed in a German bombardment during the Second World War. Living in utter poverty, he wishes on a star that he might find a better life.

Interviewee: Nikos Davanos
Field Reporter: Fotini Pipina
Producer: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Designer: Iasonas Theofanou
Sound Editor: Nikolas Tsimplakis
Photos: Dimitris Kokiotis
Music Composer: William Ryan Fritch
Voiceover: Antonis Miriagos

Istorima is the bigest project of recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. Over 1,000 young researchers find narrators, listen, collect and save stories of people from all over Greece : Stories of their place, stories of love, stories that changed us or defined us, stories modern or old. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could be lost in time. Istorima is the co-creation of the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding donation from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as part of his Youth Reboot and Empowerment initiative (learn more at  www.snf.org). The more than 20,000 stories are being published in their entirety in stages at www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos or written stories at www.istorima.org