Twin sisters, separated at birth [English voice over] | Sunday 25 December 2022

In a small village in Kastoria, in the 1960’s, twin girls are born. One is given up for adoption, and is raised with no knowledge that she ever had a twin. When her sister seeks her out, both their lives are changed.

Interviewee: Rania Fotopoulou
Field Reporter: Nikoletta Baka
Producer: Daphne Matziaraki
Sound Designer: Iasonas Theofanou
Music Composer: William Ryan Fritch
Video Director/Photos: Mike Bekos Voiceover: Melissanthi Mahut

Istorima is the bigest 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