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Sara Fortis was born in 1927 (She is alive to this day) in Chalkis, a very small Greek town. When Sara was around 2 months old, her father passed away, making Sara barely know her father. Sara and her sister was raised by their mother and they had a happy childhood.

Sara was identified as 100% Greek but she really loved celebrating Jewish things, including lighting candles every Friday and even attended the temple on holidays.

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In 1941, Germans invaded her hometown. Sara had heard about other Jews in other small towns being deported by the Nazi’s and never returning. Sara and her mother escaped to a small village of Kuturla and hid there for only a short while.

Since it was becoming more dangerous for Jews, Sara was eventually told to escape while other villagers agreed to hide her mother. Because of Sara having to leave her mother, that is when Sara chose to become a resistance fighter, she was only 14 when she became a resistance fighter.

She wanted to play a significant role in the group, so soon after, she began to travel from village to village, recruiting other women who wanted to fight.

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Sara Fortis had this photo taken in 2004 after having an interview, she is currently 98 years old

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Sara Fortis with her cousin. Year unknown. 

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Sara Fortis hanging out with her cousin

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“At the beginning they would giggle, ‘ooh will we hold that!’ You should’ve seen them after a month went by. It was like they were completely different girls”

“Afterwards it was to learn how to be girls alongside the men. It was difficult teaching them to behave as equals among them”

“Without them, without the Partisans many Jews would have died or shared the fate of the Jews of Thessaloniki at Auschwitz”

“It wasn’t a state of anarchy. Everything was organized so well that it was impossible to imagine squads such as those during a war”

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Interview with Sara Fortis in 2004. Subtitles are available.

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Sara Fortis - Protecting the women from the men