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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. Sara and her sister were raised by their mother and they enjoyed a happy childhood. Although they identified as 100% Greek, they also celebrated being Jewish by lighting candles every Friday and attending temple on holidays.Sara knew it was time to leave her hometown when the Germans arrived in 1941. She had heard about Jews in other small Greek towns being deported by the Nazis and never returning. Sara and her mother escaped to the small village of Kuturla and hid there for a short while. When it was no longer safe for Jews, Sara was told to escape while the villagers agreed to hide her mother. Leaving her mother, Sara decided to become an andarte (resistance fighter). Wanting to play a significant role in the group, she traveled from village to village to recruit other females who wanted

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She focused her efforts on recruiting other women to fight against the Germans; this paid off, and she was able to form a fighting force that specialized in using diversionary tactics to draw German soldiers away from area that other resistance fighters planned to attack

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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. And they weren't the only ones, many gentiles and many Greek people. They captured Greeks along with the Jews, those who helped the Jews, those who resisted, it was a very grave matter.

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Holocaust Resistance: Female Jewish Partisans

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Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.

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After the war, the andartes fell out of favor with the new Greek government. Sara was arrested but owing to her great reputation, she was released shortly after. She then immigrated to Israel, where she met her husband and settled down.

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Rachel Platten - Fight Song (Official Video)