I open chests and extract heirlooms, I leaf through albums and embrace ancestors, I sort through files and a multitude of documents from the political, social, and scientific life of Greece and Cyprus emerge, both recent and much older.

Our grandparents and grandmothers, our parents, we ourselves along with our descendants, are the unsuspecting heroes in the epic of the 20th century: a historical adventure filled with wars and refugee crises, invasions and occupations, as well as marriages, children, jobs, studies, positions, and progress.

At home, souvenirs from India sit on Minorasian jeweled trays, next to photographs from the previous century. In this way, without formalities, the book explores the history of people and things, and ultimately the everyday life of the History of the 20th century.

Anima Rerum means the Soul of Things, and in this case, Soul means History.