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Newspaper Women’s Action, organ of the National Liberation Front (EAM), the women’s section.

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Description

In Greece, during the German Occupation, a very large resistance movement developed, with the participation of women. The most massive resistance organisation was the National Liberation Front (EAM). The newspaper Gynaikeia Drasi [Women’s Action] was an organ of the women of the (EAM). Elektra Apostolou (1912-1944), an emblematic figure of the Greek National Resistance, participated, among other things, in the publication of illegal publications. (ASKI Library)

Creator
EAM
Source/Rightsholder
ASKI
Rights
Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
Created
1943
Spatial
Athens, Greece
Life Story
Elektra Apostolou (1912-1944)
In Greece, during the German Occupation, a very large resistance movement developed, with the participation of women. The most massive resistance organisation was the National Liberation Front (EAM). The newspaper Gynaikeia Drasi [Women's Action] was an organ of the women of the (EAM). Elektra Apostolou (1912-1944), an emblematic figure of the Greek National Resistance, participated, among other things, in the publication of illegal publications. (ASKI Library)
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