Unguarded Passage

One year after the Pylos boat disaster, one of the deadliest migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, “Unguraded Passage” hosts Lefteris Papagiannakis, director of the Hellenic Council for Refugees, in the studio of Voice of Greece. The peak of migration flows in the previous decade, European pol...

A group of German antifascists, “AK Distomo”, coming to Greece and standing next to the relatives of the victims of Distomo. A lawyer, Miltiadis Sfountouris, son of survivor Eleni Sfountouri, who tries to shed light on hidden and dark aspects of the Nazi crime in Distomo. A survivor, who...

Two brothers from Australia come to Rethymnon, Crete, to pay tribute to their late father, who died as a soldier in the Battle of Crete. A 7.5-year-old boy who watched his mother, his grandmother, his aunt, and two other women being executed. ERT’s crew records unknown stories from the Battle o...

ERT journalist Thomas Sideris presents a radio documentary of a total duration of 55 minutes, about the daring plan of two young students to take down the swastika from the Acropolis on the evening of May 30, 1941, almost a month after the surrender of Athens to the Nazis. The documentary...

The untrodden mountains of Crete became the pockets of resistance of the people against the conquerors during World War ΙΙ, from Myrtos, Vorizia, Damasta, Anogia to Sfakia. The Cretans proved in practice that the struggle to defend freedom is a matter for everyone, children, adults, elderly, men and w...

The trek begins on September 15, 1943 in the village of Myrtos when the German officer declares to the president of the village that the village will burn and gives a deadline of two hours for the residents to take what they can and leave. On the same day as the destruction of Myrtos, the conquerors enter the village of Gdohia, after previously arresting and executing on the spot in various places twelve villagers from Gdohia and Kato Symi, including three women and a six-month-old baby.

On Friday, April 26th, Voice of Greece and Thomas Sideris continue the journey to the martyred villages of Crete, documenting the chronicle of the Battle of Crete in May and June 1941, as well as all the events that followed in the following years, during the Nazi occupation. The...

Voice of Greece and Thomas Sideris continue the journey to the martyred villages of Crete and present a radio documentary about the Viannos massacres, one of the largest massacres of civilians on Greek soil by the regular army of Nazi Germany. The holocaust of the villages of Viannos province in...

The tenth episode of the radio series "Forgotten Villages" is dedicated to a great woman from Anogia, an emblematic female figure of the Cretan resistance and the great struggle of the Anogia people.  The central character is Zacharenia Skoula, a suffering but strong woman, who saw the whole story ...