![Five months pregnant in the wreck of “Samina” [Greek Audio]](https://vog.ert.gr/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/istorima_ertecho-400x400.jpg)
In September of 2000, Roula Bairami, on her voyage back to her island, Naxos, finds herself sinking on Express Samina. When she is forced to fall into the sea to save herself, her thoughts are on the child she is carrying…
Narrator: Roula Bairami
Researcher: Georgia Bairami
Podcast Creation: Fenia Chala
Sound Design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis
Sound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis
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.