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Sara Fortis (born Sarika Yehoshua) was born in 1927 in Chalkis. A small town near Athens, Greece. She never knew her father, who passed away when she was only two months old.

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"So we have a squad of thirteen girls, it was up to me to teach them how to behave."

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Sara decided to become an andarte (resistance fighter).

Sara was told to escape while the villagers agreed to hide her mother. Leaving her mother. Wanting to play a significant role in the group, she traveled from village to village to recruit other females who wanted to fight Sara formed a band of female partisans that became indispensable to the male fighters, transforming young village girls into women. On their first mission, they were ordered to throw Molotov cocktails to distract the enemy and allow the partisans to attack.

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On their first mission, Sara’s unit was ordered to throw Molotov cocktails to distract the enemy and allow the partisans to attack. Impressed by their skills, the male partisans invited the all-female group to join them on future assignments. As the war continued, Sara’s all-female partisan unit burned down houses, executed Nazi collaborators, and aided the men in a way no group of women partisans had before.

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Despite their accomplishments, sexism prevented Sara’s unit from getting the respect or credit they deserved. In fact, male andartes, Greek resistance partisan fighters, were given credit for many of the missions that the women carried out because few people believed that women could accomplish such acts.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFZCHC6xzy4&pp=ygUMc2FyYSBmb3J0aXMg

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Sara became a prominent and well-respected figure in the andartes movement in Greece. By age 18, she was known as 'Kapetenissa [Captain] Sarika.' The Nazis sent an informer to try and capture her, but mistakenly arrested, brutally raped, and murdered her cousin, Medi. Vowing revenge, she tracked down and executed the informer.

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“Fear was not in my dictionary!”