Katerina Oikonomakou

Katerina Oikonomakou is a journalist for the Greek long-form journalism website insidestory.gr. She covers disinfo, international conflicts with an emphasis on the Middle East and the Ukraine war, as well as research on mental health.

She is a Marshal Memorial Fellow (2010) and a European Journalism Fellow at the Freie Universität, in Berlin (2011-12).

Her book “The singer of Auschwitz: Estrongo Nachama Thessaloniki 1918 – Berlin 2000” (Kapon Editions) tells the story of a Greek Holocaust survivor who became one of the most famous cantors of the 20^th century.