Lefkothea Barouta grew up in Hoxha’s Albania, where any religious expression was banned, and those who celebrated Christmas or Easter risked many years in prison.
Narrator: Lefkothea Barouta
Researcher: Fylanthi Kotsia
Podcast Creation: Maya Filipopoulou
Sound Design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis
Sound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis
Music: Courtesy of the KSDM Domna Samiou. The songs “Mioroloï / Historical – Klephtic Songs,” produced by KSDM Domna Samiou, released in 2007, and “Eseis triantafyllakia mou / Of Nature and Love,” produced by KSDM Domna Samiou, released in 2006.
Istorima is the biggest 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