Andreas Markou, coming from a leftist family, endures a series of persecutions and incredible situations during the post-civil war period, which consciously lead him toward the United Democratic Left (ΕΔΑ). With the military coup by the Colonels, he is arrested and sent to Gyaros.
Narrator: Andreas Markou
Interview: Fenia Chala
Podcast Production: Fenia Chala
Sound Design: Dimitris Patsaros
Sound Editing: Spyros Lyberopoulos
Photographic snapshots: George Kapsalis
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.