Sara Fortis Padlet by MARIANNE PANGATUNGAN

Who is Sara Fortis?

mp8399993 — 2025-05-07 01:57:44 UTC

Sara Fortis is a young woman who fled her hometown in Greece when the Nazis or the Germans had invaded in 1941. She later joined the resistance movement and was a partisan.

Fortis was born in 1927 in Chalkis, a small town near Athens, Greece. When the Nazis had came to her hometown, she knew that it was time to leave. She also heard about Jews being deported and never returning. So, she fled with her mother and settled in a small village of Kuturla. When the place they were settled at wasn't safe anymore, Sara was told that she needed to find a new place to settle in or hide in. While she left, the villagers had agreed to protect her mother.

While she was searching for a new place to hide, she was given the opportunity to become an andarte (guerrilla resistance fighter) and join the resistance. She agreed, but with conditions of letting her recruit other women who wished to fight and form their own unit.

The group of women, who were partisans, and other resistance fighters had many missions to overcome the Nazis and the Germans. They had some successful ones and probably some that failed or not. Overall, the whole group did many things to help other people and help their fate be to live instead of die, and they were proud of what they did.

Photo of Sara

mp8399993 — 2025-05-07 02:01:00 UTC

Sara Fortis (the one kneeling) beside other men, who could be from her unit.

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Sara Fortis interview on the importance of Partisans

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Song: Can't Give Up Now

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Quotes said by Sara Fortis

mp8399993 — 2025-05-07 02:38:57 UTC

“I was satisfied and my girls were satisfied that they, as women, could help, be alongside Partisans. Very proud.” – Sara Fortis from “The Women Partisans Burn Down a House” interview

“Without them, without the Partisans, many Jews would have died or shared the fate of the Jews of Thessaloniki at Auschwitz.” – Sara Fortis from “The Importance of the Partisans” interview

Sara Fortis interview on training her women she recruited

mp8399993 — 2025-05-07 02:47:20 UTC

Photo of Sara Fortis and a unidentified group

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Sara Fortis (somewhere in the back) waving with a group of people to a camp

Quotes said by Sara Fortis that shows determination

mp8399993 — 2025-05-07 15:22:38 UTC

"So we have a squad of thirteen girls, it was up to me to teach them how to behave." -- From the "Sara Trains her Army of Women " interview

"Fear was not in my dictionary!" -- (Penn, 1)

"I was a fighter, I was always a fighter. Jews did not go like sheep to their slaughter." -- (Penn, 1)

What happened to Sara Fortis during the Holocaust?

mp8399993 — 2025-05-07 15:41:43 UTC

During the Holocaust, Fortis, her army of women, and her other units had many missions to overcome the Nazis that deported the Jews or did anything bad against them. While all of this had happened, Fortis was arrested, but with her great reputation, she was released shortly after and emigrated to Israel, where she met her husband and settled.

Goals of Sara Fortis

mp8399993 — 2025-05-07 15:47:29 UTC

The goals of Sara Fortis included:

--Saving as many people as she can

--Fighting and winning against the Nazis

--To free all the people that were being held by the Nazis

What was Sara Fortis's act of resistance during the Holocaust?

mp8399993 — 2025-05-07 15:59:13 UTC

During the Holocaust, Fortis had recruited women from local villages to form and lead an all-female partisan unit in Greece. She then trained these recruited women in combat tactics and sent them on missions to disrupt and distract some Nazi occupation forces. The unit often used diversionary tactics like throwing Molotov cocktails. Overall, Fortis and the women in the unit made a big difference in that their effectiveness and braveness was undeniable.

Sara Fortis

mp8399993 — 2025-05-07 16:09:53 UTC

Sara Fortis and an unidentified group

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Sara Fortis (on the right side) laying on someone and with an unidentified group

Recent photo of Sara Fortis

mp8399993 — 2025-05-07 22:24:56 UTC

What was the impact that Fortis's women made during the Holocaust to resist against the enemy?

mp8399993 — 2025-05-07 22:29:41 UTC

The impact that Sara Fortis's women made during the Holocaust to resist against the enemy is becoming a band/or group of female Partisans, who made many missions against the Nazis. Some of the missions they had were that they were ordered to throw Molotov cocktails to distract the enemy and allow other Partisans to attack. Other missions or jobs they did included: burning down houses, executing Nazi collaborators, and aiding the men in a way no group of females had done before. Overall, the group/or the unit made a difference in resisting what the Nazis had did and instead did the opposite to get rid of them.