Photo from a meeting of the Panhellenic Democratic Organization of Women, speaker Maria Beikou, 1949

During the Greek Civil War (1946-1949), many women participated in the armed movement, joining the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE). The resistance fighter and artist Maria Ferla-Beikou (1925-2011) was a ranking officer of the guerrilla army. She also participated in the women’s organization of the Communist Party, the Panhellenic Democratic Organization of Women (PDEG). In the photo, Maria Beikou on the podium of the meeting of PDEG in 1949 (ASKI, Archive of Maria Beikou)