HHF Presents

On November 14, 1973, students barricade themselves inside the Athens Polytechnio. In the end, there would be bloodshed, but history was made.

How people in the arts reacted to the military dictatorship and how counterculture tried to drown out that resistance.

As many Greeks flee the military dictatorship, places like Toronto take on an important role in the resistance.

Trying to protest the new military dictatorship was a dangerous thing to do. How the Colonels silenced their opponents...

Greeks awake on Friday, April 21, 1967 to a new reality .

To understand the student occupation of the Athens Polytechnio, you have to understand Greece in the Post-WWII years.

Hosts Bill Molos and Sandra Gionas start the 50th anniversary retrospective journey into the events at the Athens Polytechnio in November 1973.

Exodus: The Stories of 1922 is a five-part podcast exploring the Great Catastrophe, a seminal chapter in Greek history which led to the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor and Thrace. Learn the entire story of the Asia Minor refugees. Episode Five: "A New Greece"Hosts Sandra Gionas and HHF History Committee volunteer Natasha Bourliaskou discuss how the Greek refugees from Asia Minor and Thrace changed Greece, in terms of politics, sports, language, literature, food and music. This ...

Exodus: The Stories of 1922 is a five-part podcast exploring the Great Catastrophe, a seminal chapter in Greek history which led to the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor and Thrace. Learn the entire story of the Asia Minor refugees. Episode Four: "Strangers"Hosts Sandra Gionas and HHF History Committee volunteer Jason-Nikolaos Rodopoulos examine how the refugees were absorbed into Greece and Turkey, what efforts were made to help settle them and what they experienced as they...

Exodus: The Stories of 1922 is a five-part podcast exploring the Great Catastrophe, a seminal chapter in Greek history which led to the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor and Thrace. Learn the entire story of the Asia Minor refugees. Episode Three: "Uprooted"Hosts Sandra Gionas and HHF History Committee historian Terry Gitersos take a look at rising tide of nationalism, the breakdown of the Ottoman Empire and the how the Greco-Turkish War of 1920-22 ultimately led to the mass...

Exodus: The Stories of 1922 is a five-part podcast exploring the Great Catastrophe, a seminal chapter in Greek history which led to the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor and Thrace. Learn the entire story of the Asia Minor refugees. Episode One: "Ta Meri Mas/Our Homelands"Hosts Sandra Gionas and Prof. Sakis Gekas take a look at what life was like for the Greeks of Asia Minor, from daily life and culture to how the Ottoman politics affected them. This podcast is produced...

Exodus: The Stories of 1922 is a five-part podcast exploring the Great Catastrophe, a seminal chapter in Greek history which led to the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor and Thrace. Learn the entire story of the Asia Minor refugees. Episode One: “Loss”Hosts Sandra Gionas and Prof. Sakis Gekas look at the wider story of the Great Catastrophe and the population exchange that followed. They discuss the Pontian Genocide and talk to the descendants of refugees about memory, traum...

KORE 670: The Podcast is a two-part podcast accompanying the Kore 670 Exhibit (March 12-September 25, 2022) at the Royal Ontario Museum. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF), the lead patron of the exhibit.EPISODE 2The Parthenon Marbles & What Purpose Do Museums Serve? A discussion with Prof. Dimitrios Pandermalis, President of the Acropolis Museum on the Parthenon Marbles; also, what should museums be and what can they offer the public, with museum con...

KORE 670: The Podcast is a two-part podcast accompanying the Kore 670 Exhibit (March 12-September 25, 2022) at the Royal Ontario Museum. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF), the lead patron of the exhibit. EPISODE 1A Kore Comes to Toronto. Learn all about Kore 670, a Greek archaic antiquity at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), on exchange from the Acropolis Museum in Athens. With Paul Denis, Assistant Curator, Greek and Roman Galleries at the ROM.The HHF is ...

The Idea of Greece is a seven-part podcast exploring the Greek Revolution of 1821. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) and hosted by Georgia Balogiannis. The series is also under the auspices of the Greece 2021 Committee. Sponsored by Agape Greek Radio. Original music by Demetri Petsalakis. This is not the history you learned in Greek School!EPISODE 7Georgia Balogiannis and Prof. Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University in Toronto, a...

The Idea of Greece is a seven-part podcast exploring the Greek Revolution of 1821. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) and hosted by Georgia Balogiannis. The series is also under the auspices of the Greece 2021 Committee. Sponsored by Agape Greek Radio. Original music by Demetri Petsalakis. This is not the history you learned in Greek School!EPISODE 6Georgia Balogiannis, Professor Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University in Toronto, ...

The Idea of Greece is a seven-part podcast exploring the Greek Revolution of 1821. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) and hosted by Georgia Balogiannis. The series is also under the auspices of the Greece 2021 Committee. Sponsored by Agape Greek Radio. Original music by Demetri Petsalakis. This is not the history you learned in Greek School!EPISODE 5Georgia Balogiannis and Professor Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University in Toront...

The Idea of Greece is a seven-part podcast exploring the Greek Revolution of 1821. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) and hosted by Georgia Balogiannis. The series is also under the auspices of the Greece 2021 Committee. Sponsored by Agape Greek Radio. Original music by Demetri Petsalakis. This is not the history you learned in Greek School!EPISODE 4Georgia Balogiannis and Professor Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University in Toront...

The Idea of Greece is a seven-part podcast exploring the Greek Revolution of 1821. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) and hosted by Georgia Balogiannis. The series is also under the auspices of the Greece 2021 Committee. Sponsored by Agape Greek Radio. Original music by Demetri Petsalakis. This is not the history you learned in Greek School!EPISODE 3Georgia Balogiannis and HHF History Committee historian Terry Gitersos look at the violence that permeated ...

The Idea of Greece is a seven-part podcast exploring the Greek Revolution of 1821. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) and hosted by Georgia Balogiannis. The series is also under the auspices of the Greece 2021 Committee. Sponsored by Agape Greek Radio. Original music by Demetri Petsalakis. This is not the history you learned in Greek School! EPISODE 2Journalist Georgia Balogiannis and Professor Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York Universi...

The Idea of Greece is a seven-part podcast exploring the Greek Revolution of 1821. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) and hosted by Georgia Balogiannis. The series is also under the auspices of the Greece 2021 Committee. Sponsored by Agape Greek Radio. Original music by Demetri Petsalakis. This is not the history you learned in Greek School! EPISODE 1Georgia Balogiannis and Professor Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University in...