The sea diver Aristotelis Zervoudis tells the little-known story of the shipwreck of the steamer ORIA, one of the greatest naval tragedies in world’s history.
Interviewee: Zervoudis Aristotelis Field Reporter: Vlachos Stavros Producer: Stavros Vlachos Sound Designer: Alex Retsis Sound Editor: Dimitris Papadakis Video Director: Stefanos Bertakis
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.