Troumba: The “sinful” district [Greek Audio]

Vasilis Pisimisis has been working in the market of Piraeus since he was fourteen years old and knows Troumba as few do. He has been systematically researching it, gathering the fascinating stories of the women and men who saw the legendary “red light” district with its cabarets as their own shelter or personal brand of hell.

Narrator: Vasilis Pisimisis
Researcher: Michail Konstantinos
Podcast Creation: Effrosyni Kyriazi
Sound Design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis
Sound Editing: Nikolas Tsimplakis
Photo Highlights: Christos Andropoulos

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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 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.