In Greece, on the 28th of October, is remembered and commemorated the OXI day, the rejection of the Italian request by Metaxas of the Italian request to allow Axis powers to enter Greece and subsequently Greece’s official participation in WWII. It’s a public holiday and a large celebration with military parades etc. A day before the parade, all schools have their Ohi Day celebrations, where students recite poems, sing songs of the period, etc. 

In the Thassos Gymnasium the teachers have organized the event in collaboration with Avalanche Consortium, this event is mostly focused on Greek-centered stories of war. Dr. Maria Dermentzi, Researcher of UVSQ – Université Paris-Saclay,  conducted a workshop with students on AI methods for Oral History. Most students were interested and were raising hands etc making interesting comments and asking more questions related to both the history and the methods. I delivered it 3 times for each class and covered mostly ASR but also NER and NEL. There were 124 students attending in total (ages 12-15, lower secondary school). 
Their questions ranged from AI “hallucinations” to how to accurately transcribe Greek regional accents. They even made remarks about how Whisper does “literal translation” that is not always correctly reflecting the meaning of Greek phrases when translating into English. They were super interested in one of the interviews that had to do with a woman whose mother was Jewish and lives/lived in Thassos (from our Istorima corpus), recounting how she faced antisemitism when she was at their age and her father had to leave her with her grandparents so that he could head to the front. The rest of the clips were mostly about the OXI Day and the Italian/Albanian front (from the Istorima corpus). Maria picked testimonies based on what would resonate, so all of them were from school-aged children at the time and a couple of them had to do with a popular song they sang back then but even today during OXI day celebrations (Koroido Mussolini, an adaptation of Reginella Campagnola that makes fun of the Mussolini regime and how the Greeks were heading to the front with smiles on their faces–see more here https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?lang=it&id=39968 and here https://vmrebetiko.gr/en/item-en/?id=5571). Here’s the Google Colab notebook I used for the event: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1XhktcEMbLXDVqr1m8XkHVwNyGcAZm6DY?usp=sharing