Never lose hope: A young Greek Jew faces the Nazis [Greek Audio]

Maurice Gormezano was seventeen years old when the Nazis began deporting Greek Jews to concentration camps. He and his family try to escape by hiding for years in the attic crawl space of a house in the northern suburb of Psichiko.

Interviewee: Maurice Gormezano
Interview by: Tryphon Klis
Producer: Daphne Matziaraki
Sound Designer: Iasonas Theofanou
Voiceover: Antonis Myriagkos

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.