Rinio Missiou: The childhood I (never) experienced [Part I] | Monday, November 11, 2024

During the Greek Civil War, the father of a young girl joins the rebels, and her mother is sent into exile. Left alone with her siblings, she grows up “like a stray.” The childhood that Rinio Missiou (never) experienced is a harrowing tale of survival in a time of extreme hatred and violence.

Narrator: Rinio Missiou
Interview by: Fenia Chala, Dimitris Kolovos
Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou
Audio Editing: Dimitris Papadakis
Photographic Snapshots: Giorgos Kapsalis

Istorima is the biggest project of recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. Over 1,000 young researchers find narrators, listen, collect and save stories of people from all over Greece : Stories of their place, stories of love, stories that changed us or defined us, stories modern or old. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could be lost in time. Istorima is the co-creation of the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding donation from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as part of his Youth Reboot and Empowerment initiative (learn more at  www.snf.org). The more than 20,000 stories are being published in their entirety in stages at www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos or written stories at www.istorima.org