[Greek Audio]
At a time when many Greek families were struggling with each other, it was common for the first girls of families to marry by matchmaking and take the road of emigration. With their dowry in a trunk and the hope for a better life at heart, three young girls from different villages in Greece leave their home, enter an ocean liner and sail to Australia and Brazil for the journey of their lives.
Narrators: Eleni Spithaki, Maria Poimenidou, Eleni Tzanni
Researchers: Hara Psoma, Katerina Manousi, Panagitsa Ksenitelli
Podcast creation: Fenia Hala
Sound design: Iasonas Theofanous
Sound Editing: Thanos Zaboukas, Dimitris Aggelidis, Dimitris Tsiftsopoulos
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.