HHF Presents
The Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) is committed to supporting Hellenic education, culture and heritage initiatives across Canada. Its award-winning History Committee creates public history projects for a diaspora audience. This podcasting channel “HHF Presents” seeks to inform and narrate stories from our Greek past.
Podcasting since 2020 • 34 episodes
HHF Presents
Latest Episodes
Greece's Darkest Decade - Episode Six: The Seeds of the Civil War & Liberation
How the occupiers left Greece and the power vacuum left behind. How the roots of the Civil War are taking shape as conflict between resistance groups builds, fueled by ideological differences. With guest Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos, Professor ...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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44:54
Greece's Darkest Decade - Episode Five: The Holocaust
A look at Jewish life in Greece, before, during and after the War. The persecution Jews faced, particularly in Thessaloniki, and eventually deportations to concentration camps. How some Jewish Greeks survived and how this experience shaped thei...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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47:13
Greece's Darkest Decade - Episode Four: Occupation and Hunger
Under the Axis Occupation, the Greek state collapsed and Greeks were subjected to hyperinflation, hunger, starvation, ongoing violence and atrocities. But a Resistance Movement grew, determined to overthrow the German, Italian and Bulgarian for...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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49:22
Greece's Darkest Decade - Episode Three: An Early Victory, A Crushing Invasion
War began with a cruel and punishing winter at the Albanian front, which led to victory for Greece – and an eventual German invasion. As parts of Greece quickly fell, the island of Crete was the site of the first major Allied victory. A look at...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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37:27
Greece's Darkest Decade - Episode Two: The Road to OXI
As fascism was spreading across Europe, Ioannis Metaxas seized dictatorial powers and transformed daily life in Greece. But his militarization of the nation became a factor when Greece was pulled into World War II on October 28, 1940 with an ul...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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34:01
