Istorima

[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,...

[Greek Audio]

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

Despite the torrential rain, Roula sets out to go to work. She could never have imagined that in a few hours she would be struggling for her life. Narrator: Apostolos PatounisResearcher: Marina BadiouPodcast Creation: Charis PagonidouSound Design: Dimitris PalaiogiannisSound Editing: Dimitris...

As the flames approach the village of Prokopi in Northern Evia in August 2021, something takes place that is bound to remain in the memories of residents as "the miracle of St. John the Russian". Narrator: Apostolos BalatsosResearcher: Maria TzifiPodcast Creation: Effrosyni KyriaziSound...

A student, the son of immigrants from Albania, talks about his struggle with depression, his attempt to end his life and the constant struggle against stereotypes and "shoulds". Narrator: The narrator has asked to be pseudonymizedResearcher: Vasilis KoutsogiannisPodcast Creation: Maya FilippopoulouSound...

Turkish delight maker Dina Sykourti-Andreiomenou has been stirring copper cauldrons of Turkish delight for countless years, from her childhood. One thought accompanies every movement of the spoon: the school she was forced to stop. Interviewee: Dina Sykourti-AndreiomenouInterview...

Is mother's love a given? Despina, the "unwanted" third girl of a Cretan family in the 40s, recounts the story of her relationship with her mother and how it has left its mark on her life. Narrator: Despina Savrani Researcher: Margarita Koronaiou Podcast Creation: Andreas...

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 ... Read more