Rendez-vous in Athens: A promise by the Greek women of Constantinople [Greek Audio]

Eva Melachrinou was a young child when the voices of the crowd, the rowdy noise of violence and the sound of the fire from September 1955 in Istanbul reached her bedroom. It was the beginning of a series of persecutions against the Greeks which led a group of classmates to make a promise. A promise fulfilled in Athens, eleven years later.

Narrator: Eva Melachrinou
Researcher: Eleni Dermitzioglou
Podcast Creation: Fenia Chala
Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou
Sound Editing: Manolis Lianis
Photo Highlights: Damianos Aronis

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.