The islet “Agios Nikolaos” in the Kokkinonisia group lies just half a mile off the coast of Artemida and covers only twelve acres. However, for the local residents, it is a place filled with memories, from the famous festival that took place every year at its small chapel to an unspeakable maritime tragedy.
Narrator: Stamatios Papanastasiou
Interview: Efrosini Kyriazi
Podcast Creation: Efrosini Kyriazi
Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanous
Sound Editing: Spyros Lyberopoulos
Istorima is the biggest 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.