An encounter with the man who burned down my village [English voice over] | Sunday 11 December 2022

When the Germans burned the village of Kosmas, Yorgos Mermigkas lost everything. Greek collaborators participated alongside the Nazis. Years later, Mermigkas comes face to face with one of them.

Interviewee: Yorgos Mermigkas
Field Reporter: Angeliki Katti
Producer: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Designer: Dimitris Palaiogiannis
Sound Editor: Spyros Lymperopoulos
Voiceover: Duncan Skinner
Photographer: Stefanos Bertakis

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