Holocaust padlet by Rejoice Igwilo https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z Made by Rejoice en-us 2022-03-28 20:32:41 UTC 2025-05-20 17:10:07 UTC hello@padlet.com rejoiceigwilo573 https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125854166 2022-04-01 18:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125854166 rejoiceigwilo573 https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125854780 2022-04-01 18:00:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125854780 rejoiceigwilo573 https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125855554 2022-04-01 18:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125855554 rejoiceigwilo573 https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125856128 2022-04-01 18:01:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125856128 Childhood rejoiceigwilo573 https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125861022 Sara Fortis ( who was born as Sarika Yehoshua) was born in 1927 in Chalkis, which was a small town near Athens, Greece. She never knew her father, who passed away when she was only two months old. Sara and her sister were raised by their mother and they enjoyed a happy childhood. They identified as 100% Greek. But they also celebrated being Jewish by lighting candles every Friday and attending temple on holidays.


]]> 2022-04-01 18:05:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125861022 Relevant website rejoiceigwilo573 https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125865558 https://www.jewishpartisans.org//partisans/sara-fortis]]> 2022-04-01 18:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125865558 A quote rejoiceigwilo573 https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125873298 "I was “Captain Sarika.” If anyone needed anything, they would say, “Tell Captain Sarika and she'll take care of it."
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/resistance-during-holocaust/call-me-captain-sarika]]> 2022-04-01 18:14:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125873298 When the Nazi's came rejoiceigwilo573 https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125876155 Sara knew it was time to leave her hometown when the Germans arrived in 1941. She had heard about Jews in other small Greek towns being deported by the Nazis and never returning. Sara and her mother escaped to the small village of Kuturla and hid there for a short while. When it was no longer safe for Jews, Sara was told to escape while the villagers agreed to hide her mother. Leaving her mother, Sara decided to become an andarte (resistance fighter). Wanting to play a significant role in the group, she traveled from village to village to recruit other females who wanted to fight.]]> 2022-04-01 18:17:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125876155 An act of resistance rejoiceigwilo573 https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125879757 Sara formed a band of female partisans that became indispensable to the male fighters, transforming young village girls into women. 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 Nazi collaborators, and aided the men in a way no group of females had before. The male andartes were given credit for many missions the women completed, as it was unfathomable that women could accomplish such acts. ]]> 2022-04-01 18:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125879757 An Interview With Sara Fortis rejoiceigwilo573 https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125882382 https://youtu.be/jHey1R9CJ1M]]> 2022-04-01 18:22:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125882382 Sad times rejoiceigwilo573 https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125886757 Despite their accomplishments, sexism prevented Sara’s unit from getting the respect or credit they deserved. In fact, male andartes, Greek resistance partisan fighters, were given credit for many of the missions that the women carried out because few people believed that women could accomplish such acts.
Despite the unit’s lack of recognition, Sara became a prominent and well-respected figure in the andartes movement in Greece. By age 18, she was known as Kapetenissa (Captain) Sarika. The Nazis sent an informer to try to capture her, who mistakenly arrested—then brutally assaulted and murdered—her cousin, Medi. Vowing revenge, Sara tracked down and executed the informer.
]]> 2022-04-01 18:25:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125886757 Aftermath rejoiceigwilo573 https://padlet.com/rejoiceigwilo573/vz1krmychfkxc31z/wish/2125889353 After the war, the andartes fell out of favor with the new Greek government because of the political alliances they formed. Sara was arrested. Fortunately, her reputation as a hero of the resistance led to her release. She then emigrated to Israel, where she met her husband.
She still lives to this day and is 95 years old
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