We survived the forest fires in Mati [English voice over] | Sunday 05 February 2023

A young mother describes minute by minute how she and members of her family survived the forest fires of Mati in the summer of 2018. But not all of them managed to survive.

Interviewee: Fei Sekeridi
Field Reporter: Danae Charalampidi
Producer: Stavros Vlachos – Daphne Matziaraki
Sound Designer: Dimitris Palaiogiannis
Sound Editor: Spyros Lymperopoulos
Video Director /Photos: Daphne Matziaraki
Music Composer: William Ryan Fritch
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