Sara Fortis by Hannah Bursch

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“So we have a squad of thirteen girls, it is up to me to teach them how to behave.” -Sara Fortis

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Holocaust Enciclyopedia-Sara Fortis

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https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/sara-fortis

She encouraged women to fight and also gave women a symbol to admire. She was also a symbol of hope to women.

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She gave women a reason to stay strong and not submit to the germans because they wanted to help resist the Nazis like her.

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Sara Fortis fled her hometown when the Germans arrived.

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She sheltered in the town of Kuturla. When it wasn’t safe for Jews the villagers agreed to hide her mother if she left.

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She became an andarte(resistance fighter).

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She went to villages to recruit females who wanted to fight, then made a band of female partisans.

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On their first mission, they threw cocktails to allow the men to attack.

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The men were impressed by the females, so they invited the females to join in missions.

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They executed Nazi collaborators and burned down houses.

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By age 18 she was known as “Kapetenissa(captain) Sarika”.

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The Nazis tried to capture her but accidentally captured her cousin Medi. The informer brutally raped then murdered her cousin.

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She tracked down and executed the informer who murdered her cousin.

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After the war, the andartes were not regarded well by the Greek government. She was put in jail for a short time but then was released because she had a good reputation.

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She immigrated to Israel and met her husband and settled down.

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She was born in Chalkis a small town near Athens, Greece.

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Sara Fortis never knew her father, who passed away when she was only two months old, so she was raised by her mother.

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Sara and her sister enjoyed a good childhood and identified as 100% Greek.

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They acknowledged being Jewish by lighting candles every Friday and attending temple services on holidays.

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https://www.jewishpartisans.org/partisans/sara-fortis

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https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/sara-fortis

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https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/sara-fortis

Sara Fortis