During the dictatorship, Nikos Manios joined the armed resistance group “October 20th Movement,” planting bombs at various targets in Athens. When he and a comrade were arrested, they were imprisoned and sent into exile on Gyaros.
Narrator: Nikos Manios
Interview: Stavros Vlachos
Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos
Sound Design: Dimitris Palaiogiannis
Sound Editing: Spyros Lymberopoulos
Photographic Snapshots: Giorgos Kapsalis
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.