Lia Karzi lives a pleasant life in 1960s Athens until one morning, everything is overturned: Dictatorship. Her vitality and zest for life will keep her strong until the end
Narrator: Lia Karzi
Researcher: Myrto Karzi
Podcast Creation: Haris Pagonidou
Sound Design: Thodoris Moustakas
Sound Editing: Nikolas Tsimplakis
Istorima is the biggest 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.