A family with an icon, Our Lady of Thracian Doxatos, in the Asia Minor Catastrophe. A child with his father at the family watermill in Crete. A young man with a disability with a friend, at the Monastery of Pammegistos Brigades, on Lesvos. Three stories about an event experienced by our storytellers and interpreted as a “miracle”.
Narrators: Moschos Triantafylakis, Stathis Kritsotakis, Dimitris Pantazis
Researchers: Fotoula Papandreou, Evgenia Tzortzaki, Chrysoula Pantazi
Podcast Creation: Efrosyni Kyriazi
Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou
Audio Editing: Spyros Lymperopoulos, Giorgos Gkanidis, Vasilis Manthopoulos, Thanos Zamboukas
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.