Sara Fortis by Lauralee Bouchard

what is Holocaust?

469429_1 — 2024-04-02 14:46:07 UTC

The holocaust also call Shoash corresponds to the persucution and systematic murder of 6 millions Jews, led by the Nazi state and it's collaborators from 1933 to 1945.

Who is Sara Fortis?

469429_1 — 2024-04-02 14:53:12 UTC

Sara Fortis was born in 1927 in Chalkis, a small town near Athens, Greece. She never knew are father since he died when she was two months. This one is 100% Greek, but they celebrated their Jews statut by lighting candles every friday and lighting temple on holidays.

When German arrived in the village?

469429_1 — 2024-04-02 15:00:35 UTC

Sara had that it was time that she left, because the Germans arrived in 1941. She had heard about who had Jews in small Greek towns who had them captured by Nazis and they never come back.

Story Sara Fortis

469429_1 — 2024-04-02 15:08:16 UTC

The Nazi sent an informer to try and captured her, but mistakenly arrested, brutally raped and murdered her cousin Medi. Vowing revenge, she tracked down and executed the informer.

After the war what happened?

469429_1 — 2024-04-02 15:12:28 UTC

After the war, the andartes fell out of favor whut the new greek governement. 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. Right now if she didn't die she be between 96 or 97 years old

The act of resistance

469429_1 — 2024-04-02 15:17:53 UTC

Wanting to play a significant position withinside the groups, she traveled from village to recruit different girl who desired to fight. Sara shaped a band of women partisant that have become imperative to the male fighters, remodeling younger village ladies into woman.

The impact the act of resistance

469429_1 — 2024-04-02 15:21:51 UTC

On their first mission, they were ordered to throw Motolov cocktail to skills, the male partissans invited tha all female group to join in many missions. They burned down houses, executed Nazi, collaborator, and aided the men in a way no groups of female had before.

469429_1 — 2024-04-02 15:25:31 UTC

A quote for courage the Sara Fortis

469429_1 — 2024-04-02 15:39:26 UTC

One who is not brave enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Video by Sara trains her army of women

469429_1 — 2024-04-03 18:55:37 UTC

Sara explains in this video how she taught her daughters to fight. She explain that they were just entitled to the gun. When she learned what, she taught them afterwards.

Know by whose name?

469429_1 — 2024-04-03 19:15:11 UTC

Sara has become an important person and respect the andarte movement in Greece (Andarte movement, a movement opposed to the Nazi). At 18 years old she was know as Kapetenissa which means captain.

What happened to his house?

469429_1 — 2024-04-03 23:46:31 UTC

In 1991, the house were Sara Fortis lived in Israel was destroyed by an Iraqui missile during the Persian Gulf War.

Sara an inspiring woman for us!

469429_1 — 2024-04-04 00:32:13 UTC

Sara is an inspiring woman, because she has shown that woman in this era are able to serve other things than ''watch'' men do. She was able to form a group of women and also show how to fight the Germans.