Not many people know that among the tragic victims of the Titanic disaster, which sank after hitting an iceberg on April 15, 1912, were four Greeks from a small village in Messinia called Agios Sostis. In this episode, the granddaughter of Panagiotis Lyberopoulos—the only survivor who left behind descendants—shares her grandfather’s story and shows us the personal items he had with him when he drowned.
Narrator: Angeliki Kyritsi-Lyberopoulou
Interview: Stavros Vlahos
Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Design: Georgios Ramantanis
Sound Editing: Georgios Ramantanis
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