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Sara Fortis was born in Chalkis in 1927. A relatively small town near Athens Greece. She and her sister were raised by a single mother since her father passed away when she was 2 months old. When the Nazi’s arrived her mother and her escaped to another small village, Kurturla. They hid there for some time but the villagers agreed to hide her mother if she escaped.  After leaving her mother she decided to become a resistance fighter.

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Sara traveled to different villages recruiting other females who wanted to resist. Soon Sara gathered a group ready to fight and resist. Their first mission had an incredible plan. Some partisans would throw Molotov’s to distract the enemy which allowed the others to attack.

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Male partisans groups were impressed by their actions and invited them to accompany them in their missions. Together the groups burned down many houses and exterminated Nazi collaborators. They also aided the men with injuries. Unfortunately, most of the credit was given to the men for the missions that were completed by the women. Primarily because most people thought women were unable of these actions.

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Sara Fortis, along with her group proved to the people that girls were also capable of strong actions. Even though she isn’t recognized often she made a huge impact on girls life in the 1900s. The female partisans group showed that the women in the world can also do something and it wasn’t just the men.

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As Sara Fortis learned many new things amongst the Partisans she taught the girls them too. They learned how to hold pistols and other guns. According to Sara Fortis at first  they giggled and thought it was a joke that they were actually going to hold guns. However, afterwards they took the matter more seriously than she herself.

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For more information, use this website. (click on link to access)

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For more information, use this website. (click on link to access)

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https://historyguild.org/fear-was-not-in-my-dictionary-the-revolutionary-work-of-sara-fortis/?srsltid=AfmBOoq3DEaMNCPau1n_hoLd3Lr9-7PagZjFICFpCkx3zo_kUe2kYvh7

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Fear Was Not in My Dictionary: The Revolutionary Work of Sara Fortis

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Reading time: 6 minutes When the small Greek town of Kuturla burned in 1943, teenage Sara Fortis had been on the run from German occupying forces for two years already. From the raw age of fourteen, she had hidden her Jewish status and worked for underground resistance movements as a nurse and teacher. But when her sanctuary burned, when she was separated from her mother, Fortis was no longer willing to hide. She was no longer willing to limit her resistance to ‘women’s work.’

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Without help from the outside it was possible that the Jews would have shared the same fate as many others. The Partisans helped the Jews in many ways. One of them being supplying them with weapons. It was very possible that the Jews would not have survived if it weren’t for the Partisans. However, other groups did help the Jews as well.

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Multimedia File (click on link to access).

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Multimedia File (click on link to access).

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A YouTube video of an interview by Sara Fortis.

https://youtu.be/jHey1R9CJ1M

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Sara Fortis - Sara trains her army of women

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Once the female group was given a mission by the male group to go burn a house down. A simple house was the only one in the town. The girls went dressed up in villager clothes. They burned down the house with torches. Fortunately, no one guessed it was the female group of Partisans since they thought they weren't capable of such actions. However, the next day many blamed the Partisans. Many others were talking about how the Partisans came and torched the house down. Also how lucky it was that the fascist wasn't in the house when they burned it. Sara Fortis was very proud of the female groups work.

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Sara Fortis was known as Captain Sarika within her group of the Partisans. If one needed anything others amongst the groups would say to them 'tell Captain Sarika and she'll take care of it'. It came to the point that they forgot Sara Fortis's name. Fun Fact: All the other girls were called by their names except for Sarah Fortis who everybody called Female Captain in Greek.

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

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A picture of Sara Fortis in the Partisans Uniform as Captain (click on link to open).

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A picture of Sara Fortis in the Partisans Uniform as Captain (click on link to open).

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https://www.jewishpartisans.org/sites/default/files/styles/partisans_desktop_image/public/node/media_image/IT-Fortis-PartisanGun_web_0.jpg?itok=MOUI3IvV

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A picture of Sara Fortis as a nurse (Click on link to open).

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A picture of Sara Fortis as a nurse (Click on link to open).

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https://www.jewishpartisans.org/sites/default/files/styles/partisans_desktop_image/public/node/media_image/IT-Fortis-Nurse-large_0.jpg?itok=1vumtNVg

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Image of Sara Fortis dressed up as a Partisan(click on link to open).

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Image of Sara Fortis dressed up as a Partisan(click on link to open).

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https://www.jewishpartisans.org/sites/default/files/styles/partisans_desktop_image/public/node/media_image/IT-Fortis-Partisan_web_0.jpg?itok=R7u7JzDX

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A picture of Sara Fortis in her interview in August 2004( click on link to open)

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A picture of Sara Fortis in her interview in August 2004( click on link to open)

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https://www.jewishpartisans.org/sites/default/files/styles/partisan_profile_thumbnail/public/node/partisan/recent/SB-FortisS-REC_0.jpg?itok=Ey0AwdzX

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Sara Fortis (along with other people) waving goodbye to a camp (click on link to open).

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Sara Fortis (along with other people) waving goodbye to a camp (click on link to open).

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https://www.jewishpartisans.org/sites/default/files/styles/media_gallery_thumbnail/public/node/media_image/IT-Fortis-ToCamp_web_0.jpg?itok=ML0eHKX5

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Sara Fortis sitting with an unidentified table (click on link to open)

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Sara Fortis sitting with an unidentified table (click on link to open)

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https://www.jewishpartisans.org/sites/default/files/styles/partisans_desktop_image/public/node/media_image/IT-Fortis-Wanted_web_0.jpg?itok=LXz6T0Sp