Istorima

[Greek audio] During the first Greek expedition to the Himalayas in 1985, Christos Lambris miraculously survives the avalanches that claimed the lives of two of his comrades on Mount Annapurna. Narrator: Christos Lambris Researcher: Marios Grammatikoudis Podcast...

How powerful is a heartfelt selfless act? Some say that the good we do always comes back to us. The unbelievable story of Apostolos Symeonidis shows how good deeds know no borders and live forever in the hearts of those they touched. Interviewee: Apostolos SymeonidisInterview...

[Greek Audio] In a kingdom of Eastern Rumelia, a brilliant princess saves the fairy-enchanted son of King Eftamboulos. Narrator: Areti PolymenidiResearcher: Danai TheodorakiPodcast Creator: Daphni MatziarakiSound Design: Dimitris PalaiogiannisSound Editing: Spyros LymperopoulosAnimation:...

Anta Vossou grew up at sea. She was ten years old when her father acquired a boat and loved it from the start. She became a professional fishergirl. The boat became her home and the sea her great love. Narrator: Anta VossouResearcher: Magdalene AlexandriPodcast Creation: Fenia ChalaSound...

[Greek Audio] How costly is the truth? A Greek teacher teaches more than what is allowed during Hoxha's dictatorship in Albania. Fate leads him from the country’s harshest prison to the chancel of Albania's first church. Narrator: Michalis MassioResearcher: Filanthi KotsiaPodcast Creation: S...

[Greek Audio] The spontaneous recitation of a poem one evening in 1954 at Pedion tou Areos park in Athens changes forever the life of a five-year-old child. He is transferred at once in the magical, for him, world of cinema, next to actors such as Vougiouklaki, Alexandrakis, Avlonitis, Vassiliadou....

[English Voiceover] It’s Christmas 2004, and a group of friends is enjoying a laid-back holiday in Phuket, Thailand, when the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami strikes. Interviewee: Kostas AvlonitisInterview by: Maria MakriProducer: Andreas Pappas, Maya FilippopoulouSound Designer: Giorgos RamantanisSound E...

[Greek Aidio] A young oenologist takes charge of Domaine Porto Carras and finds out an old, forgotten variety: Malagousia. He revives it, cultivates it on a small scale and the first wine he produces immediately stands out. It was the first of many successes of the well-known winemaker Vangelis Gerovasiliou,...

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Christmas Eve, Koskinou Village, Rhodes: 14 year-old Rafaella Drakou suddenly loses her father, a well-known livestock farmer of the island. She doen't hesitate for a second, nor her sisters; they take up all the livestock and step forward with courage and strength, opposite every possible hassle or...

Το πρωινό της Πρωτοχρονιάς, ένας νεαρός Έλληνας μετανάστης στη Γερμανία παίρνει μια πολύ κακή απόφαση.

Maurice Gormezano was seventeen years old when the Nazis began deporting Greek Jews to concentration camps. He and his family try to escape by hiding for years in the attic crawl space of a house in the northern suburb of Psichiko. Interviewee: Maurice GormezanoInterview by: Tryphon KlisProducer:...

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 ...

Maurice Gormezano was seventeen years old when the Nazis began deporting Greek Jews to concentration camps. He and his family try to escape by hiding for years in the attic crawl space of a house in the northern suburb of Psichiko. Interviewee: Maurice GormezanoInterview by: Tryphon KlisProducer:...

Giannis Polyzos, a seafarer with a life filled with storms, adventures, and romance, was fated to spend his last voyage as a prisoner. Narrator: Giannis PolyzosResearcher: Evangelia TaktikouPodcast Creation: Andreas PappasSound Design: Giorgos RamantanisSound Editing: Nikolas...

Eva Melachrinou was a young child when the voices of the crowd, the rowdy noise of violence and the sound of the fire from September 1955 in Istanbul reached her bedroom. It was the beginning of a series of persecutions against the Greeks which led a group of classmates to make a promise. A promise...

During the massacres following the Greco-Turkish War of 1922, which resulted in the eradication of the Greek population in Anatolia, Stella Michalaki’s grandmother manages to save an icon of the Virgin Mary that continues to evoke memories of persecution. Interviewee: Stella MichalakiField R...

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 ... Read more