On Christmas Eve in Koskinou, Rhodes, twenty-four-year-old student Rafaela Drakou suddenly loses her father, a prominent livestock farmer on the island. She and her sisters do not hesitate for a moment. They take on the livestock themselves and step up with courage and perseverance, against all hardships and prejudices.
Interviewee: Rafaela Drakou
Interview by: Dimitra Patapi
Producer: Fenia Chala
Sound Designer: Iasonas Theofanou
Sound Editor: Avraam Marios Theofilatos
Translator: Eva Kesserling
Voiceover: Melia Kreiling
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