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In September 1943, four-year-old Vasilis Papadopoulos witnesses the massacre at Viannos, Crete by the German Nazis, in which more than 20 villages were burned and 461 people of all ages were executed.
Narrator: Vasilis Papadopoulos
Researcher: Marili Papadopoulou
Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos
Sound Design: Giorgos Romantanis
Sound Editing: Dimitris Papadakis
Photographs: Giorgos Gounezos
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.