![A Heavy Obligation: The shipwreck of ORIA [Greek audio]](https://vog.ert.gr/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/istorima_ertecho-400x400.jpg)
A wood-carved Italian icon that was washed out to sea in the days after the sinking of the ORIA, will weigh on Kalomoira Georgakopoulou’s family for decades as an unpaid debt.
Narrator: Kalomoira Georgakopoulou Interview: Stavros Vlachos Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou Sound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis Video Direction / Photographs: Stefanos Bertakis
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 Empower Youth (see more on www.snf.org). More than 20,000 stories are gradually being published in full on www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos, or written stories on www.istorima.org.