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Sara Fortis decided to become a resistance fighter, due to the Nazis and Germans invaded her home and cause her to move where she had left her mother in the mountain countryside of Euboea. Sara wanted to make a big impact but not alone, she went from small village to small village to recruit young women. Overtime the young women had become strong, independent women and had taken this matter seriously. Sara Fortis and the 12 young women fought with other partisans to attack German supplies,  troops, and to kill collaborators.

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This involved Sara Fortis and a group of Partisans.

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In the end Sara Fortis sadly got arrested but she was released not long after and immigrated to Israel, where she met her husband and decided to settle down.

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Sara Fortis - Protecting the women from the men

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Born in Chalkis, a small town near Athens, Greece, Sara Fortis never knew her father, who passed away when she was only two months old. Raised by her mother, Sara and her sister enjoyed a happy childhood. Though they identified as Greek, they carried on Jewish tradition by lighting candles on the sabbath and attending religious services on holidays.

When the Nazis came to her hometown in 1941, Sara knew it was time to leave. She had heard about Jews in other small Greek towns being deported by the Nazis and never returning. After fleeing with her mother, they settled in the small village of Kuturla. When it was no longer safe, Sara was told that she needed to find a new place to hide, although the villagers agreed to continue to protect her mother.

While looking for a new place to stay, Sara was offered the opportunity to join the resistance and become an andarte (guerilla resistance fighter). She agreed, but with conditions. Wanting to play a significant role in the group, Sara insisted that she be allowed to recruit other women who wished to fight and form their own unit.

Sara's band of female partisans soon became indispensable. However, fears about the unit's well-being were not confined to their fighting; in between assignments, the women were often forced to sleep next to the men, and Sara always worried about their safety.

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.

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.

Despite the unit's lack of recognition, 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 to capture her, who mistakenly arrested-then brutally assaulted and murdered-her cousin, Medi. Vowing revenge, Sara tracked down and executed the informer.

After the war, the andartes fell out of favor with the new Greek government because of the political alliances they formed. Sara was arrested. Fortunately, her reputation as a hero of the resistance led to her release. She then emigrated to Israel, where she met her husband.

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Read the story of Sara Fortis, a young woman who fled her hometown in Greece when the Nazis invaded in 1941 and joined the resistance movement.

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Sara fortis saved lots of jews by forming a group of young Partisan women. Sara and the young womens first job was to distract German soldiers so that other resistance fighters can attack, but they often burned houses, attacked German supplies, troops, and to kill collaborators. This made a big impact on the world because she, and her group, saved/helped lots of people during world war ll.

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Details: Sara left her mother and the local villagers agreed to hide her.
Dates: 1941 (the day the Germans invaded her home)
Important Facts:
-Sara and her group of women never got the credit for their work even though it was really risky, the groups of men mostly got the credit.T hey still got recruited for lots of jobs and accepted.
-Sara Fortis and her unit often used their gender and age as a tactic to lead the Germans
-Sara Fortis was only 17 but made a big impact on the world
-The nazi’s arrested and raped her cousin, Medi, as the mistook her as Sara. This made Sara Fortis want to get even more revenge.