https://padlet.com/nb998002957/rgqb2dho7one All about Sara Fortis en-us 2019-04-15 17:07:44 UTC 2019-05-09 17:09:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://imgglb.padletcdn.com/v13/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f60b.png nb998002957 https://padlet.com/nb998002957/rgqb2dho7one/wish/352363741

Sara Fortis is a resistor from the holocaust 

Born in Sarika Yehoshua in 1927 in Chalkis, a small town near Athens, Greece

Raised by her mother she had a lovely life 

Her father died when she was  just 2 months old 

Sara knew it was time to leave her hometown when the Germans arrived in 1941

 Sara and her mother escaped to a small village called Kuturla and hid there for a short while

After a while it was no longer safe for Jews, Sara was told to go, although the villagers agreed to hide her mother for .

When it was no longer safe for Jews, Sara was told to go, although the villagers agreed to hide her mother.

 Leaving her mother, Sara decided to become an andarte resistance fighter

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Sara decided to become an andarte resistance fighter. 

Wanting to play a significant role in the group, she decided to go from village to village to recruit other females who wanted to fight.

Sara formed a band of female partisans that became indispensable to the male fighters

 On their first mission, they were ordered to throw Molotov cocktails to distract the enemy and allow the partisans to attack. 

Impressed by their skills, the male partisans invited the all-female group to join in many missions. 

they burned down houses, executed Nazicollaborators, and aided the men in a way no group of females had before. 

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Sara became a prominent and well-respected figure in the andartes movement in Greece. 

Prominent-Famous & Important

 By age 18, she was known as Kapetenissa Captain Sarika. 

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

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. 

She then emigrated to Israel, where she met her husband and settled down.

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