I fought for the freedom of Cyprus [Greek audio]

The tragic moments of the battle of the Hellenic Force of Cyprus (ELDYK) in Nicosia through the recollections of Antonis Vrouhakis, a Cretan soldier who had only just stepped his foot on the island on the day the Turks invaded.

Interviewee: Antonis Vrouhakis
Field Researcher: Alexander Natsi
Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Recording: Dimitris Paleogiannis
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.