Sara Fortis bulletin board! by HARPER DICKSON

Background information.

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 17:33:12 UTC

Sara Fortis was born in 1927 at Chalkis, a small town near Athens, Greece. She decided to become a resistance fighter and traveled from village to village to recruit females to fight with her. Sara’s father passed away when she was only two months old. She had to leave her mother, and she then decided to become a resistance fighter.

The act of the resistance.

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 17:34:32 UTC

Her resistance group impressed the male resistance fighters so much that they were invited to go on missions with them. The resistance helped in many ways including aiding the men, and burned down houses. The resistance started around the 1940s.

The impact on the resistance.

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 17:35:09 UTC

The impact on the resistance was to help the Jews and execute the Nazis. Also to protect many women and girls from the harm of the war. Another thing was to protect themselves as they protected others.

More things about the resistance.

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 17:36:15 UTC

The men who were working with the resistance were mostly taking all the credit for the women’s missions. It was not very common for the women to be able to accomplish all of the tasks. The women were taken for granted for their strengths.

One quotable quote.

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 17:36:58 UTC

“I was “Captain Sarika.” If anyone needed anything, they would say, “Tell Captain Sarika and she'll take care of it.”

Multi-Media link.

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 17:37:54 UTC

Sara Fortis - Sara trains her army of women

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHey1R9CJ1M

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 17:45:26 UTC

Sara Fortis is explaining how she trained the women to resist and to fight.

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 17:46:51 UTC

Sara Fortis is describing what she did to protect the women from the men as the war went on.

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 17:47:56 UTC

Sara Fortis is claiming and describing how her and the resistance burned down a house in the war.

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 17:48:47 UTC

Sara Fortis is explaining the importance of the partisans and what would happen if they were not apart of the war.

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 17:49:36 UTC

Sara Fortis is describing the partisans of Evia and what they did in the war.

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 17:50:47 UTC

Sara Fortis is explaining how the resistance and everyone else called her "Captain Sarika".

More background information.

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 17:55:38 UTC

Sara was Identified as 100% Greek, but her family decided to celebrate being Jewish too. Sara knew she needed to leave the country when the Nazis Arrived. Sara and her sister lived with their mother and had a great childhood.

About the resistance.

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 18:00:12 UTC

On their first mission, they were ordered to throw Molotov cocktails to distract the enemy and allow the partisans to attack. Most nights the women were forced to sleep next to the men, and Sara worried about them all the time. After the resistance’s movement in Greece, Sara became respected and known.

After the war.

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 18:02:27 UTC

After the war Sara was arrested. She was shortly released because of her appearance in the war. She then immigrated to Israel and settled down.

More interesting facts.

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 18:05:57 UTC

The Nazis then sent someone to capture her, but they accidently captured her cousin. They then tormented her and killed her. When Sara was notified this had happened, she then found the informer and executed them.

The link to the website!

hd9239982 — 2025-05-06 18:10:20 UTC

jewishpartisans.org/partisans/sara-fortis