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Sara Fortis lived in a small town called Chalkis near Athens, Greece. She was born in 1927.

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Her family identified as 100% Greek but celebrated being jewish by lighting candles everyday. She tried leaving her hometown when the Germans arrived in 1941.

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She went from village to village finding other girls who wanted to fight. The impacted was that after their first mission they did so good the male partisans invited female to join.

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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 Fortis - Sara trains her army of women

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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.

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Sara Forts 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.

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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.executed Nazi collaborators, and aided the men in a way no group of females had before.

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Sara and the other woman did not agree with the nazi. they know of the work that the men were doing to stop the Nazi and wanted to be part of it

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fight and win against the Nazi

she wanted to free all the people that were being held by the nazi

she wanted to save as many people as they can.