In 1978 three American divers, two of whom were military personnel at the Hellenikon Air Base, disappeared in Vouliagmeni. Almost 30 years later, their diving suits and the human remains that were inside them came into the hands of Professor Konstantinos Moraitis, the only Greek to study bones of judicial interest.
Narrator: Konstantinos Moraitis
Interview: Demi Hatzi
Podcast Creation: Demi Hatzi
Audio Editing: Dimitris Papadakis
Sound design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis
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.