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Remarkable Personalities
Mina Ralli
SCHEDULE VOICE OF GREECE

Unguarded Passage

Thomas Sideris

The show has been broadcast regularly since 2014, including more than 500 radio documentaries and hundreds of oral testimonies and recordings on the most important events of the 20th century, as well as the first two decades of the 21st century. The episodes have already been integrated into ERT’s valuable audiovisual archive. The show has been honored by the Albert Schweitzer Society in Austria and the Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) in New York.

Forgotten Villages – Ep. 9: The Battle of Crete | 12 Apr.2024
Thomas Sideris travels to Crete, the prefectures of Heraklion, Rethymno and Chania, searches for eyewitnesses and tries to document 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. Through the narrations...
Forgotten Villages – Ep. 8: The Battle of Crete | 05 Apr.2024
Thomas Sideris travels to Crete, the prefectures of Heraklion, Rethymno and Chania, searches for eyewitnesses and tries to document 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. Through the narrations...
Forgotten Villages – Ep. 7: National Resistance in Evia | 22 Mar. 2024
Small villages perched on the roots of rocks, but also head villages and towns that were full of life and became places of martyrdom and death during the fascist and Nazi era. People caught in the maelstrom of history, unable to define their present and future, who lived through the horror and absurdity...
Forgoten Villages – Ep. 6: Kanakis Geronimakis, an untamed Cretan soul (Part II) 15 Mar. 2024
Kanakis Geronimakis was born in 1926 in Vouvas, Sfakia and, as he says, he often brings to mind the world as it was before the war, but also during it. He was one of the oldest survivors of the Battle of Crete unfolding before their eyes. ERT journalist Thomas Sideris traveled to Sfakia and met Kanakis...
Forgoten Villages – Ep. 5 | Kanakis Geroninakis, an untamed Cretan soul (Part I) 08 Mar. 2024
Kanakis Geronimakis was born in 1926 in Vouvas, Sfakia and, as he says, he often brings to mind the world as it was before the war, but also during it. He was one of the oldest survivors of the Battle of Crete unfolding before their eyes. ERT journalist Thomas Sideris traveled to Sfakia and met Kanakis...
Forgotten Villages – Ep.4: The Kalamata blockade | 16 Feb. 2024
The Kalamata blockade On the occasion of the bloody events in Kalamata on February 1944 and the execution of dozens of city residents by the Nazis (153 civilians have been identified to date), the Voice of Greece brings to light a journalistic and historical investigation of ERT journalists Ilias...
Forgotten Villages – Ep. 3: Kandanos | 09 Feb. 2024
The third episode of the radio documentary series "Forgotten Villages" is dedicated to Kandanos, which will be broadcast on Friday, February 9th, 2024, from 13:00 to 14:00 by Voice of Greece. The main narrator of the radio documentary is Irini Kandaraki. During World War II, on June 3rd, 1941,...
Forgotten Villages – Ep. 2: Kormista | 02 Feb. 2024
Autumn 1941, in the village of Kormista in the prefecture of Serres. At dawn on the first day of October, a Bulgarian detachment with Nazi collaborators from Drama, after fraudulently rounding up villagers, separated the men from the women and children and, holding the latter hostage, led about 125...
Forgotten Villages – Ep. 1: Kedyllia | 26.01.2024
The calendar shows October 17th, 1941. Friday at dawn.  At six o'clock in the morning two fully armed companies of German Nazis, together with the prisoners at Stavros of Kerdyllia, go up to the position of Stovolos and Livadia and encircle Ano Kerdylia and Kato Kerdylia. Two hours later,...