[Greek Audio]
From Ioannina to Thessaloniki and from there to Amorgos, Athena, a researcher at istorima, was always looking for her own place, where she would feel truly comfortable and free. Every year more and more young people choose to leave life in the city and live in a small place, like Amorgos. Along with Athena, Diego and Thodoris, and once Athena’s mother, Maddalena, are among those young people who were made by foreign locals on Amorgos for different reasons with a common desire: to find their hometown.
Narrators: Diego Souriadakis, Thodoris Theodoridis, Madalena Kirkiasarian, Athina Stampouli
Researcher: Athina Stampouli
Podcast Creation: Charis Pagonidou
Sound Design: Dimitris Patsaros
Sound Editing: Spyros Lyberopoulos
Visual: HØLY
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.