Turkish delight maker Dina Sykourti-Andreiomenou has been stirring copper cauldrons of Turkish delight for countless years, from her childhood. One thought accompanies every movement of the spoon: the school she was forced to stop.
Interviewee: Dina Sykourti-Andreiomenou
Interview by: Justine Arvaniti
Producer: Fenia Chala
Sound Designer: Iasonas Theofanou
Sound Editor: Minoas Koutentakis
Photos: Christos Andropoulos Voiceover: Skyrah Archer
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.