Lampros Vazaios describes his experiences in the exile camp for political prisoners in Gyaros, but also in the camp in Leros, where he was assigned as a military doctor during the dictatorship.
Narrator: Lampros Vazaios
Interview: Stavros Vlachos
Podcast creation: Stavros Vlachos
Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou
Audio Editing: Dimitris Papadakis
Video Direction/Photographs: George 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 place, love stories, stories that have changed us or defined us, stories modern or old. Stories that are not recorded in history books and that could be lost to time. It was created by journalist Sofia Papaioannou and 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 in www.snf.org). These stories, over 20,000 of them, 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.